ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,240, issued on May 19, was assigned to Stripe LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Deploying assets" was invented by Rustem Muslimov (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Mark Fielbig (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Jack DeLoach (Denver), Shanshan Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Atul Bhatia (Fremont, Calif.) and Vinay Padma (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to handling deployment of assets (e.g., applications) to devices (e.g., card readers, payment terminals, etc.), substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims."

The patent was file...