ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,772, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Self-disclosed identity on a network" was invented by Marc Ward (Livermore, Calif.), Thomas J. Gilheany (San Jose, Calif.), Parul Ghosh (Bangalore, India) and Shahriar Zand-Biglari (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein include techniques for communicating information about the social behavior of users and transactions performed by users on a computer network. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving information about identity disclosure activities performed by each of a plurality of users on th...