US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Feb. 24 for "Connected payment card systems and methods" (California, Iowa, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,668, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Connected payment card systems and methods" was invented by Michelle B. Techel (San Carlos, Calif.), Peter Ho (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Timothy R. Edge (San Francisco), Dorothy M. Scocci (San Ramon, Calif.), Brenda L. Yost (San Francisco), Kathy Barris Dideum (San Antonio, Calif.), Cheryl Lynn Wong (Alameda, Calif.), Khyati Soparkar (San Francisco), Steven E. Puffer (Champlin, Minn.), Stephanie S. Hellman (Fairfax, Calif.), Brian M. Pearce (Pleasanton, Calif.) and James D. Crowell (West Des Moines, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of ...