ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,724, issued on April 21, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for distributing digital rewards between third parties" was invented by John Andrew Chuprevich (Davidson, N.C.), Carrie Anne Hanson (Charlotte, N.C.), David Price (Kennewick, Wash.), Blair Bijou (New York), William J. Bailey (Charlotte, N.C.) and Joseph de Bruin Tennis (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for distributing digital rewards between third parties. An example method includes receiving rewards data representative of at least a digital rew...