ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,938, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for improved project management" was invented by Abraham Drucker (San Francisco), Khushbu Katariya (Dublin, Calif.), Timothy R. Knowlton (Mill Valley, Calif.), Shelby K. Morita-Fowler (Alameda, Calif.), Brian M. Pearce (Pleasanton, Calif.), Dana Roytenberg (San Francisco) and John T. Wright (Mapleton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a budget includes determining, by a budget management system, funds of a project management account that are to be routed to a task manager for a project. The determining comprises: ...