ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,851, issued on May 20, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for ATM deposit jammed item imaging and transaction completion" was invented by Galen Alexander (San Francisco), Jonathan Baker (San Francisco), Jason Cain (San Francisco), Frank Digangi (San Francisco), Tom Florian (San Francisco) and Stephen Fry (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for completing jammed transactions at a transaction device by a computing system includes receiving partial transaction information related to an interrupted transaction, storing a physical document associated with the interrupted transact...