ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,285, issued on May 5, was assigned to STRIPE LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for using partial cookies for electronic authentication and authorization" was invented by Jiwon Kim (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jose Carlos Matias (South San Francisco, Calif.), Ernesto Carvajal Lastres (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Suhas Hoskote Muralidhar (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods and systems disclosed herein allow for faster and more efficient authentication using a partial cookie instead of a full cookie (or other data structure). In one example, a server receives, during the fir...