US Patent Issued to Citibank on Sept. 15 for "Methods and systems for accessing account information electronically" (Ohio, Florida, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,805, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Methods and systems for accessing account information electronically" was invented by Andres Wolberg-Stok (Weston, Fla.), Sonia Olivo Alfieri (Jackson Heights, N.Y.), Dominic Varacalli (Cincinnati), Syed Rahat (Mason, Ohio) and Wayne Browning (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for accessing customer account information involve, for example, binding a computing device with a customer's profile via one or more attributes of the computing device and an encrypted token stored on the computing device and thereafter receiving an authenticat...