US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for contactless card activation via unique activation codes" (California, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,591, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for contactless card activation via unique activation codes" was invented by Deana Cook (Wilmington, Del.), Darrell L. Suen (San Ramon, Calif.) and William E. Wheeler (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and system of activating and using a contactless card via unique activation codes are disclosed. A system includes a memory and a processor configured to: receive an account number for a contactless card from a third party computing system; generate a card activation code for the contactless card, the card...