ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,556, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Automated machine learning pattern matching access rights engine" was invented by Alejandro J. Carao (Atlanta), Robert William Childress (Peoria, Ariz.), Jonathan Wayne Ingram (Covington, Wash.), Gokarna K C (Concord, N.C.), Suki Ramasamy (Chennai, India) and Tara R. Ross (Norwalk, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving an event notification that a user identifier has been added to a project identifier in a database, the user identifier associated with resource access rights for a plurality of resources; querying a datastore fo...