ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,080, issued on May 26, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods of digital ID sharing" was invented by John Andrew Chuprevich (Davidson, N.C.), John Ionescu (Charlotte, N.C.), Matthew Wheeler (Charlotte, N.C.), Bill Bailey (Charlotte, N.C.) and Ling Yee Lindy Sin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for digital ID sharing are disclosed. One disclosed method includes receiving a first digital ID comprising a verified credential of a first user; receiving a second digital ID comprising a verified credential of a second user, verifying a relationship between the first user a...