US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Oct. 27 for "Variable card fee point-of-sale system" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,926, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Variable card fee point-of-sale system" was invented by Frank Fehrenbach (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system is configured to receive an indication of a customer transaction associated with a customer, retrieve, in response to receiving the indication of the customer transaction and prior to receiving a payment method from the customer for the customer transaction, transaction rates associated with a plurality of potential payment methods, determine a plurality of potential transaction amounts corresponding to the plurality of pote...