ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,841, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"System for providing selective access to user information" was invented by Shawn Walker (Charlotte, N.C.), Kayli Wolford (Charlotte, N.C.), Emily Palmer Brown (Charlotte, N.C.), John Andrew Chuprevich (Davidson, N.C.) and Matthew Wheeler (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trusted data management system (TDMS) receives, from a third party system, a request for user data and a user identifier. The TDMS identifies a data sharing schema from a set of data sharing schemas associated with the user identifier. The data sharing schema defines a sub...