ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,886, issued on March 31, was assigned to Stripe LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Processing system of a network using intent object to instruct servers regarding electronic device" was invented by Dan Wang (South San Francisco, Calif.), Olivier Godement (South San Francisco, Calif.), Sara Meretab (South San Francisco, Calif.), Sophia Sakellariadis (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Huan Chen Lu (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: creating, on a server, an object corresponding to the transaction; tracking state of the object as the object transitions between a plurality of states, the ob...