ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,046, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Enhanced drive-up experience-customer journey" was invented by Darren M. Goetz (Salinas, Calif.), Corey Michael Heaton (San Francisco) and Amy J. Schmitt (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods an enhanced drive-up banking experience with automatic authentication are provided herein. The system includes a communication interface structured to communicatively couple to a network, sensors, a processor, and memory. The system performs operations including receive an indication that a user has activated a user session on a user devic...