ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,737, issued on May 13, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Simultaneous capture of multiple checks" was invented by John Akira Kobuchi (San Francisco), Dennis E. Montenegro (Concord, Calif.) and Sadie S. Salim (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums for simultaneously capturing an image of multiple checks for deposit. An example method includes receiving, by a bank computing system and from a user device, a multi-check image depicting a front side of multiple checks for deposit with a bank during a communication session. The ...