Patents by Inventor Michelle E. Ziolkowski
Michelle E. Ziolkowski has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12572906Abstract: A method includes determining a payment amount based in response to receiving a transaction request; providing transaction data to a user device in response to initiating a transaction with a user device, the transaction data including the payment amount; receiving user data from the user device, the user data including a request to provide funds via a payment rail and account information identifying a first institution associated with the user device; and receiving a funds received confirmation from a second institution computing system. The funds received confirmation is provided to the terminal device in response to a fund transfer corresponding with the payment amount being received by the second institution computing system from a payment rail. The payment rail receives the fund transfer from the first institution computing system in response to the transaction data being provided to the first institution computing system from the user device.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 10, 2026Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Brent Teitel, Michelle E. Ziolkowski
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Publication number: 20260037940Abstract: Point of sale (POS) devices, systems, and methods disclosed herein enable payments by merchants to non-customers, such as to employees of the merchant. A point of sale system of the merchant determines an amount of a payment to be made by the merchant to the employee. The point of sale system transmits payment instructions for executing the payment to a payment system provider computing system. The funds are made available in a bank account of the employee instantly or near instantly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Theresa Ann Clements, Daniel David, Shane D. Eaton, Albert Hwu, Derek D. Mohr, James C. Noe, Jacob T. Orth, Michelle E. Ziolkowski
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Patent number: 12443933Abstract: Point of sale (POS) devices, systems, and methods disclosed herein enable payments by merchants to non-customers, such as to employees of the merchant. A point of sale system of the merchant determines an amount of a payment to be made by the merchant to the employee. The point of sale system transmits payment instructions for executing the payment to a payment system provider computing system. The funds are made available in a bank account of the employee instantly or near instantly.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2024Date of Patent: October 14, 2025Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Theresa Ann Clements, Daniel David, Shane D. Eaton, Albert Hwu, Derek D. Mohr, James C. Noe, Jacob T. Orth, Michelle E. Ziolkowski
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Publication number: 20250156823Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for a personalized merchant identifier. An example method includes receiving, by communications hardware, a set of transaction data elements, wherein the set of transaction data elements include an indication of a payment type or a merchant and deriving, by a personalization engine, a set of merchant data elements from the set of transaction data elements. The example method further includes receiving, by the communications hardware and from a user, one or more payment accessibility parameters and comparing, by the personalization engine, the one or more payment accessibility parameters to the set of merchant data elements to identify one or more compliant merchants, wherein the one or more compliant merchants comply with the one or more payment accessibility parameters. The example method further includes performing, by a notification circuitry and based on the one or more compliant merchants, an action.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2023Publication date: May 15, 2025Inventors: Michelle E. Ziolkowski, Erin Aine Croll
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Publication number: 20240211905Abstract: Point of sale (POS) devices, systems, and methods disclosed herein enable payments by merchants to non-customers, such as to employees of the merchant. A point of sale system of the merchant determines an amount of a payment to be made by the merchant to the employee. The point of sale system transmits payment instructions for executing the payment to a payment system provider computing system. The funds are made available in a bank account of the employee instantly or near instantly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2024Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Theresa Ann Clements, Daniel David, Shane D. Eaton, Albert Hwu, Derek D. Mohr, James C. Noe, Jacob T. Orth, Michelle E. Ziolkowski
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Publication number: 20240144209Abstract: A method includes determining a payment amount based in response to receiving a transaction request; providing transaction data to a user device in response to initiating a transaction with a user device, the transaction data including the payment amount; receiving user data from the user device, the user data including a request to provide funds via a payment rail and account information identifying a first institution associated with the user device; and receiving a funds received confirmation from a second institution computing system. The funds received confirmation is provided to the terminal device in response to a fund transfer corresponding with the payment amount being received by the second institution computing system from a payment rail. The payment rail receives the fund transfer from the first institution computing system in response to the transaction data being provided to the first institution computing system from the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank N.A.Inventors: Brent Teitel, Michelle E. Ziolkowski
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Patent number: 11948134Abstract: Point of sale (POS) devices, systems, and methods disclosed herein enable payments by merchants to non-customers, such as to employees of the merchant. A point of sale system of the merchant determines an amount of a payment to be made by the merchant to the employee. The point of sale system transmits payment instructions for executing the payment to a payment system provider computing system. The funds are made available in a bank account of the employee instantly or near instantly.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Theresa Ann Clements, Daniel David, Shane D. Eaton, Albert Hwu, Derek D. Mohr, James C. Noe, Jacob T. Orth, Michelle E. Ziolkowski
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Patent number: 11551190Abstract: Point of sale (POS) devices, systems, and methods disclosed herein enable payments by merchants to non-customers, such as to employees of the merchant. A point of sale system of the merchant determines an amount of a payment to be made by the merchant to the employee. The point of sale system transmits payment instructions for executing the payment to a payment system provider computing system. The funds are made available in a bank account of the employee instantly or near instantly.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Theresa Ann Clements, Daniel David, Shane D. Eaton, Albert Hwu, Derek D. Mohr, James C. Noe, Jacob T. Orth, Michelle E. Ziolkowski
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Publication number: 20210342802Abstract: Systems and methods for reporting invoice payments are disclosed. A financial institution computing system includes a data storage system, a network interface circuit enabling the financial institution computing system to exchange information over a network, an invoice circuit, an optimization circuit, and a transaction circuit. The invoice circuit receives invoice information from the network, which the optimization circuit uses to determine an optimized payment date and an optimized payment vehicle. The transaction circuit executes the optimized payment vehicle on the optimized payment date, and reports the invoice payment to at least one customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2015Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Matthew Joseph Heffron, Donald E. Sellers, JR., Michelle E. Ziolkowski