ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,551, issued on April 15, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Resource transfer validation within a metaverse" was invented by Vinesh Premji Patel (London), Manu J. Kurian (Dallas) and Michael Robert Young (Davidson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is configured to receive an interaction request from the first user that identifies an address for a contract that is stored in a blockchain and to access machine-executable instructions associated with the contract. The device is further configured to determine a projected number of virtual resources and real-world resources for the first user based on a n...