ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,291, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Demand prediction based on user input valuation" was invented by Chandrasekaran Sivaraman (Bangalore, India), Priya R. Radia (Bangalore, India), Ashalatha Seetharam (Bangalore, India), Susmita Santra (Bangalore, India), Manas Ranjan Sahu (Bangalore, India), Mothi Mai Malli Viswanathan (Bangalore, India), Rajesh P. Mannachery (Bangalore, India) and Shanmukeswara Rao Donkada (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic social network can be provided that unifies products and services of one or more entities, such as financial institutions....