ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,052, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Stripe Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for deploying permissions in a distributed computing system" was invented by Benjamin Mays (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for managing and using permissions in a distributed services system is described. The method may include receiving, by a service system of the distributed services system, a definition of a permissions data structure and a mapping of permission positions from a permissions bitmap log to permissions in the permissions data structure. The method may also include receiving, by ...