ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,530, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Biller consortium enrollment and transaction management engine" was invented by Alan W. Hecht (San Francisco), Chate Yap (Orinda, Calif.), Ann M. Kirk (Deerwood, Minn.), Peter Rozovski (Concord, Calif.), Peter L. Shen (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Sotirios Barkas (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coordinating billing requests and payments across different financial institutions includes receiving an electronic enrollment request by a biller exchange computing system from a customer computing device; displaying an interactive cont...