US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on May 12 for "Systems and methods for a transaction card having a customer-specific URL" (California, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,242, issued on May 12, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for a transaction card having a customer-specific URL" was invented by Deana Cook (Wilmington, Del.), Darrell L. Suen (San Ramon, Calif.) and William E. Wheeler (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and system of activating and using a contactless card are disclosed. More particularly, a transaction card that includes a contactless enabled chip having a customer-specific uniform resource locator (URL) stored thereon, where the contactless enabled chip is configured to communicate the customer-specific URL to ...