ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,417, issued on July 29, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for storing and verifying data" was invented by Sudipta Kitsis (San Francisco), Jose Salazar (San Francisco), Lashana Wiggs (San Francisco), Michael Annetti (San Francisco), Rohit Bodhale (Charlotte, N.C.), Sachin Rege (San Francisco), Melissa Meacham (Charlotte, N.C.), Anya Carpentier (Boston), Vinay Maganti (San Leandro, Calif.), Jacquelin Macdonald (Tempe, Ariz.) and Todd Lewis (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods can include a provider institution accounts database structured to retrievably store data c...