US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on May 19 for "Value transfer via facial recognition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,848, issued on May 19, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Value transfer via facial recognition" was invented by Chris Kalaboukis (San Jose, Calif.), Kristine Ing Kushner (Orinda, Calif.) and Muhammad Farukh Munir (Pittsburg, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device includes a display, a camera, and an application. The application is structured to: receive first image data of a first user from a first input of the camera; receive second image data of a second user from a second input of the camera; receive a payment amount of a bill; detect a location of the first user; determine a recommended division ...