ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,547, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Content claiming" was invented by Pedro Cunha (Springfield, N.J.), Srilalitha Kasibhotla (San Antonio), James J. Keck (Jersey City, N.J.), Eric Kunz (Boston), Mohana Rao Mulli (Allen, Texas), Geoffrey Kyle Root (Charlotte, Conn.), Kurt Schmitt (Farmington, Conn.) and Mark Albert Simoes (Lakewood Village, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As the number of applications developed by the organization increases, the computing resource costs for storing and maintaining applications may also increase significantly. The disclosed content claiming system provid...