ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,536, issued on March 17, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Mobile wallet registration via on-line banking" was invented by Ashish B. Kurani (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Steven E. Puffer (Champlin, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for separately registering a user and a mobile device for use of a mobile wallet account includes registering, by a registration terminal of a mobile wallet provider, a user for use of the mobile wallet account, including assigning one or more user-provided settings to the mobile wallet account. The method also includes receiving, by a computing system of the mobile wallet p...