ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,445, issued on July 28, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for providing digital trusted data" was invented by Clyde E. Cutting (San Francisco), Keith W. Harris (San Francisco), Erik Pilz (Palo Alto, Calif.), Wei Su (San Francisco) and Eduardo DeLA Torre (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for providing trusted data. A digital trusted data (DTD) computing system of a service provider can accept requests for trusted data from internal computing systems and/or external computing systems of third parties. Based on the data requested, a r...