US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on June 3 for "Systems and methods for automated teller machine-based communication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,258, issued on June 3, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for automated teller machine-based communication" was invented by Jason Huang (San Francisco), Darren M. Goetz (Salinas, Calif.) and Dennis E. Montenegro (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, and methods for communicating during a calamity include a processing system of a first ATM that is communicably coupled via an ATM network to a second ATM. The first ATM includes an external network connection separate from the ATM network. The processing system can modify the first ATM from a first mode to a second mode responsiv...