ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,884, issued on July 29, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).
"Data control tower" was invented by Brian M. Pearce (Pleasanton, Calif.), Steven Pulido (San Francisco), Benjamin Soccorsy (Larkspur, Calif.) and Mojdeh Tomsich (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a customer a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use customer information maintained by a financial institution are described. The central location serves as a central portal where a customer of the financial institution can manage all access to accou...