ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,822, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CITIBANK N.A. (New York).

"Methods and systems for interactive data input" was invented by Raul Aldrey (Irving, Texas), Ahmar Mubeen (Irving, Texas), Vinh Chu (Irving, Texas), Rohit Yerneni (Irving, Texas), Klesta Lamaj (New York), Adhi N. Narashimmamoorthy (Irving, Texas), Dale Bauer (Naperville, Ill.), Matthew Bills (Chicago), Dante Diaz (Frisco, Texas), Kristi M. Emery (Coppell, Texas), David Hyser (Wilmette, Ill.) and Michael Brandt (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and systems to partially freeze an electronic account associated with a user. The server r...