ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,842, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Feature activation based on alternative feature behavior" was invented by Jung Sook Lim (Markham, Canada), Susan Marjorie Juvet (Toronto), Emily Anne Lowther (Elmira, Canada), Claire Iona Wilcox (Toronto) and Ethel Zlotnik Chavez (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of registering a user for a first feature by a software application, wherein the registering of the user comprises receiving information about the user, determining that the received information does not meet a first condition related to a first fe...