ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,290, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association (Minneapolis).

"Methods and systems for a virtual assistant" was invented by Bradley O. Matthews (Minneapolis) and Tory K. Passons (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is a method including assigning, by a virtual assistant computing device, a transaction intent associated with a mobile device user for a transaction and determining by the virtual assistant computing device, whether the transaction is in accordance with policy. The method further includes sending by the virtual assistant computing device, a policy de...