ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,657, issued on May 13, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Control tower for prospective transactions" was invented by Lila Fakhraie (Belmont, Calif.), Brian M. Pearce (Pleasanton, Calif.), Steven Pulido (San Francisco), Benjamin Soccorsy (Larkspur, Calif.), James Stahley (San Francisco) and Mojdeh Tomsich (Piedmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a customer a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use customer information maintained by a financial institution are described. The central location serves as a c...