ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,962, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Stripe Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Fault-tolerant no code workflows" was invented by Niranjan Padmanabhan (San Francisco), Benjamin Mays (Austin, Texas), Molly Hanes (Houston) and Ankita Gupta (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for defining and executing a workflow are described. the method comprises presenting, on a first section of a user interface (UI), a plurality of UI components associated with a plurality of tasks to be performed, where each UI component is associated with one task. The method further comprises, in response to one or more UI components...