ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,252, issued on May 27, was assigned to STRIPE INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Control plane service of a distributed caching platform" was invented by Yufei Hu (Foster City, Calif.), David Albertson (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kexin Zhu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device and method for managing a distributed storage system with a control plane is described. The processing device may perform operations including receiving, with a first service, a request to perform an operation associated with a cluster of nodes, wherein the cluster includes one or more router nodes and one or more data storage node...