ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,068, issued on June 2, was assigned to STRIPE LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for identity graph based fraud detection" was invented by Ryan Drapeau (Seattle), Feiyi Ouyang (Seattle), Tianshi Zhu (San Francisco), David Abrahams (San Francisco) and Joshua Rosen (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for fraud detection during transactions using identity graphs are described. A method includes receiving, at a commerce platform system, a transaction from a user having initial transaction attributes and transaction data. The method also includes determining, by the commerce platform...