US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Aug. 18 for "Access control tower" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,492, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Access control tower" was invented by Brian M. Pearce (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Benjamin Soccorsy (Larkspur, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a customer a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use customer information maintained by a financial institution are described. The central location serves as a central portal where a customer of the financial institution can manage all access to account information and personal information stored at the financi...