ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,532, issued on June 30, was assigned to STRIPE LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for modeling distributed service systems by a ledger system" was invented by Ilya Ganelin (Berkeley, Calif.), Joseph Pereira (Squamish, Canada), Sharjeel Sohail (Redmond, Wash.) and Peter Bakkum (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are described for modeling a software system of a distributed services system. The method includes receiving a stream of ledger transaction messages generated by a software system, which are then stored in a data store. A ledger system accesses a data model representing a s...