ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,691, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to STRIPE INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing user customizable policies for revenue recognition" was invented by Tanin Na Nakorn (San Francisco), Ji Huang (San Francisco), Atikh Bana (San Francisco) and Xu Rui (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatuses for implementing user customizable policies for revenue recognition are described. In some embodiments, user inputs are received from a merchant that specify components of a set of revenue recognition rules to apply to transactions of the merchant on a per tra...