US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on July 22 for "Systems and methods for digital account activation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,482, issued on July 22, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for digital account activation" was invented by Ashish B. Kurani (Hillsborough, Calif.), Jenny Y. Tao (Belmont, Calif.) and Katherine M. Yee (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, user device, and computer-readable storage media for registering and activating accounts is provided. A method includes: transmitting, by a user device to a computing system, an input from a user regarding opening an account at an institution associated with the computing system; establishing, by the user device, a communication session base...