ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,959, issued on May 6, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Token management systems and methods" was invented by Azita Asefi (Vacaville, Calif.), Jinee K. Ellis (San Francisco), Alan W. Hecht (Chanhassen, Minn.), Timothy R. Knowlton (Mill Valley, Calif.), Ashish B. Kurani (Hillsborough, Calif.), Steven E. Puffer (Champlin, Minn.) and Young M. Yang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage medium for managing tokens are provided. A method includes: receiving, by a token management system from a user device, a token command from a user associated with a target token...