US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Nov. 11 for "Data privacy management" (California, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,847, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Data privacy management" was invented by Damien Guenther (Newport, R.I.), Megan Klein (San Francisco), Chris McClennen (Charlotte, N.C.), Joy Middleton-Saulny (Smyrna, Ga.) and Kathleen Evelyn Senior (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system places control and choice of managing the usage of private data into the hands of the users themselves. In some examples, the disclosed data privacy management system allows users to select preferences on how their private data is used by the business, both internally and externally. For exampl...