ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,839, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Stripe Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Service interaction violation detection" was invented by Sydney Zheng (Berkeley, Calif.) and Soam Vasani (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, interactions among services in a service proxy are recorded in an interaction log. A service graph manager then parses the interaction log. The service graph manager reads each interaction and then processes the interaction to determine if it violates the rules. If so, the service graph manager reports the violation to the software developer and also recommends an action to r...