ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,812, issued on May 19, was assigned to Stripe LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Customizable state-machine-based event processing" was invented by Alexander Thiemann (San Francisco), Calvin Grunewald (Gilbert, Ariz.), Jason Horman (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Dmitry Alexeenko (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology include receiving a request to generate an event-based workflow associated with a first event type, which includes a state machine that includes at least a state and an associated transition and receiving an event including a second event type and an event attribute. Aspects also include determ...