ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,999, issued on June 24, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for personal information and preference storage, permissioning, and sharing" was invented by Chintan Mehta (San Ramon, Calif.) and Jason Strle (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for distributing user data and permission settings is provided. The method includes receiving user inputs that identify at least one experience provider for data sharing and at least one data sharing preference of the user, configuring a rules engine of the platform computing system with rules based on the user inputs where the rules engine ...