ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,761, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to STRIPE LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Workflow orchestration based on idempotent activities and read-only activities" was invented by Alexander Chang (Columbia, Md.), Hai Wang (Seattle), Mark Vandevoorde (Los Altos, Calif.) and Kevin McCluskey (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: receiving an initial input message from a caller to a processing system configured to receive input messages and to generate output messages in response to the input message and a persistent store; identifying a workflow associated with the initial input message, the workflow including...