ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,918, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Method and system for portfolio gamification" was invented by Dion Eugene Baker (Indian Trail, N.C.), Emily E. Ingham (Waxhaw, N.C.), Jo-kit Patrick Lo (Pineville, N.C.) and Marc E. Schwartz (York, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are directed to systems and methods that bridge the gap between users and an entity. A metric associated with an article used by social media user is received. The metric is compared with a plurality of thresholds and then a variable indicium is assigned to the social media user. The variable indicium is assigned bas...