ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,482, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for monitoring a budget scope in real time" was invented by Darren M. Goetz (Salinas, Calif.), Dennis E. Montenegro (Concord, Calif.), Alicia Y. Moore (San Ramon, Calif.) and Timothy R. Ward (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses include a provider computing system including a network interface structured to facilitate data communication via a network and a processing circuit comprising a processor and memory. The processing circuit is structured to receive a scope and a budget. The processing circu...