ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,385, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Access control interface for managing entities and permissions" was invented by Lila Fakhraie (Belmont, Calif.), Brian M. Pearce (Pleasanton, Calif.), Steven Pulido (San Francisco), Benjamin Soccorsy (Larkspur, Calif.), James Stahley (San Francisco) and Mojdeh Tomsich (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a customer a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use customer information maintained by a financial institution are described. The central loca...