US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on March 3 for "Status information for financial transactions" (Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,043, issued on March 3, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Status information for financial transactions" was invented by David Bialzak (Des Moines, Iowa), Darren James Dobier (Stillwater, Minn.) and Kevin Chu (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic computing device receives a request from a third party for status information for a financial transaction. The request includes an identifier for the third party and an identifier for the financial transaction. The third party is authenticated using the identifier for the third party. A data store is queried using the identifier for the financial tr...