ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,079, issued on July 21, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for vendor alerts from analyzed third party sources" was invented by Nathan B. Coles (San Francisco), Tejal Shalinkumar Trivedi (San Francisco), Luke Nelson deNatale (San Francisco), Matthew Dennison (San Francisco), Mattie L. Morris (Chandler, Ariz.), Brenda L. Gordon (San Francisco), Kimberly Summerrow (San Francisco), Trisha Leann Mitchell (San Francisco) and Qin Dong (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include establishing, by one or more processors of a first computing system, a connection between the...