ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,588, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Stripe Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Exchange platform in a distributed assets management platform" was invented by Devesh Chourasiya (Mountain View, Calif.), Sumeet Bedi (Kirkland, Wash.), Andrew Straussman (Plymouth, Minn.), Dounan Shi (South San Francisco, Calif.), Priyanka Kukreja (Redwood City, Calif.), Etan Zapinsky (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Gary Licht (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.), Kun Hu (Bellevue, Wash.), James Gilbertson (Seattle) and Debjani Mitra (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for a simplified process for managing the exchange of different...