ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,020, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Third party products and services via ATM" was invented by Ashish B. Kurani (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating, by a provider computing system associated with a provider, a passcode and transmitting the passcode to a third party computing system; receiving, at a transaction machine associated with the provider, a request for payment of a bill issued by the third party to a third party customer; generating, by the transaction machine, a user interface to receive a passcode input and receiving the passcode inpu...