ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,153, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for assigning card-specific alerts to payment cards" was invented by Sirena Jean Wong (Moraga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for custom alert identification. An example method includes obtaining readable software instructions specifying a virtual payment card, a virtual wallet application, and a feedback. The example method further includes generating key-value-pair data comprising a key that specifies an identity of the virtual payment card and a value ...