US Patent Issued to STRIPE on May 26 for "Method and apparatus for performing transactions over a network using cross-origin communication" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,704, issued on May 26, was assigned to STRIPE LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for performing transactions over a network using cross-origin communication" was invented by Patrick Collison (San Francisco), John B. Collison (San Francisco), Greg D. Brockman (San Francisco), Saikat Chakrabarti (New York) and Ross A. Boucher (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transaction is conducted between a merchant site and a customer's electronic device using a payment processor. The merchant site is associated with a client-side application and a server-side application. The client-side application executes on the cu...