ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,234, issued on April 29, was assigned to Stripe Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for proof of application ownership" was invented by Joseph Patrick Kirwin (Victoria, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for a commerce platform providing proof of application ownership of a network distributable application are described. The method may include receiving a request to approve an application developed by a merchant system, wherein the application includes an application programming interface (API) component, a software development kit (SDK) component, or a combination thereof provided by the...