ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,312, issued on March 17, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Systems and methods for segregated collection and storage of sensitive data" was invented by Kelly Patrick Ernst (Wilmington, Del.), Howard Spector (Street, Md.), Matthew Baker (Worthington, Ohio), Xinyi Xu (Northbrook, Ill.), Steve M Piatt (Dublin, Ohio), Deepak Kheterpal (Galena, Ohio), Rajesh Ganapathy (Powell, Ohio), Arunava Mitra (Lewis Center, Ohio) and Michael R Hack (Hillsborough, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include: an originating system receiving decisioning data from an applicant as part of an application for a product, the...