ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,739, issued on May 13, was assigned to Stripe Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Reverse webhook authentication" was invented by Ji Huang (Bothell, Wash.) and Yu-Ting Tsai (Richmond, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally describes one or more techniques for authenticating a webhook endpoint with a webhook server. Some techniques include a webhook server sending a seed with a webhook endpoint after the webhook endpoint is registered with the webhook server. In some examples, the webhook server generates the seed to send to the webhook endpoint and stores the seed with a key associated with the webhook endpoi...