ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,116, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HUBSPOT INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Multi-service business platform system having payments systems and methods" was invented by Matt Schnitt (Boston), Christopher Parkin (Dorchester, Mass.), Daniel Rucci (Cambridge, Mass.) and Chris Wong (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to various ways of improving the functioning of computer systems, information networks, data stores, search engine systems and methods, and other advantages. Among other things, provided herein are methods, systems, components, processes, modules, blocks, circuits, sub-systems, articles, ...