US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Sept. 22 for "Customer identity and access management" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,831, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Customer identity and access management" was invented by John Bruno (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Thirupathirao Modukuri (Chandler, Ariz.) and Mahesh Tawari (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system for managing identity and access within a federated digital ecosystem includes functionality to store and manage identity data associated with users across federated identity domains, which represent distinct organizational boundaries. The system provides authentication and access control services based on open standards and enforces a unified...