ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,449, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Stripe LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for simulating selective fault injections into a network infrastructure" was invented by Leonardo Viccari (Seattle), Stuart Sandine (Seattle), Omar Eltobgy (Seattle), Michael Succi (Seattle) and Sherif Mahmoud (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a network infrastructure having a set of network component nodes, each network component node configured to communicate with at least one other network component node in accordance with a dependency protocol; and a server in communication with the network infrastruct...