ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,954, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Stripe LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for authenticating users to access data" was invented by Jose Carlos Matias (South San Francisco, Calif.), Bryan Irace (Rye, N.Y.), Jiwon Kim (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jie Ren (Seattle), Ashwin Curran Raja (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Erin Lynne Kavanaugh (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for disambiguating a user from a plurality of users within a computing infrastructure when the plurality of users utilize a common identifier are described. Disambiguation may occur through the user of subsequent ...