ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,094, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for customizing authentication credentials for a payment card" was invented by Ashley Mullins (San Ramon, Calif.), Shalini Sahdeo (San Francisco), Dorothy M. Scocci (San Ramon, Calif.) and Katherine M. Yee (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of customizing authentication credentials for a payment card includes providing, by a payment card configuration circuit of a financial institution computing system, a card configuration interface to a computing device of a customer, the customer having a payment card account ma...