US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on July 1 for "Systems and methods for linking ATM to retailer transaction to preserve anonymity" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,929, issued on July 1, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for linking ATM to retailer transaction to preserve anonymity" was invented by Darren M. Goetz (Salinas, Calif.), Dennis E. Montenegro (Concord, Calif.), Alicia Y. Moore (San Ramon, Calif.) and Timothy R. Ward (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing cash back to a customer from a linked automated teller machine (ATM) after a purchase transaction. The method includes receiving, by a provider computing system associated with a provider, a cash back request including a cash back amount from a point-of-sale computi...