ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,820, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for identifying activities of individuals in virtual spaces using identity linking" was invented by Sadie S. Salim (Mill Valley, Calif.), Jeff J. Stapleton (O'Fallon, Mo.), Michael Knorr (Fairfield, Conn.) and Manesh Saini (New York City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for constructing a foundational identity to establish the identity of an individual and linking the foundational identity to various other identities of the individual in virtual spaces. An e...