ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,680, issued on May 13, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Mobile wallet account provisioning systems and methods" was invented by Ashish Bhoopen Kurani (Burlingame, Calif.), Nikolai Stroke (Gilbert, Calif.), Bipin Sahni (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Stephen M. Ellis (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an indication from a user that a physical payment card is lost or stolen, and an indication to perform a mobile wallet transaction. The method includes accessing a database to retrieve a list of accounts held by the user, and prior to presenting a list of available source accounts, d...