ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,772, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Location-based notification method and system" was invented by Dino Paul D'Agostino (Richmond Hill, Canada), Michel Proulx (Toronto) and Laura Victoria Wyatt (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and computer systems for notifications. Generating anonymous information and associating the anonymous information with a particular profile in a plurality of profiles. During an authenticated state of a software application installed on a computing device, provisioning the software application with the anonymous information. During an unauthenticated sta...