ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,752, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Stripe Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for authenticating a user commerce account associated with a merchant of a commerce platform" was invented by Brian David Krausz (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jieren Chen (South San Francisco, Calif.), Shreyas Surendra Doshi (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Michael Villar (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for authenticating a user commerce account associated with a merchant of a commerce platform are described. The method may include initiating authentication of the user commerce a...