US Patent Issued to Stripe on July 1 for "Systems and methods for hard deletion of data across systems" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,471, issued on July 1, was assigned to Stripe Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for hard deletion of data across systems" was invented by Ryan Drapeau (Seattle) and Andrew Bullen (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for hard deletion of user data are described. The method may include receiving a request from a user computer system to delete user data. The method may also include determining a unique user identifier associated by a system with a user making the request. The method may also include determining whether a data partition, in which data generated by a job or subsystem...