ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,645, issued on April 22, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System, method and graphical user interface for providing a self-service application within a metaverse" was invented by Priyeshkumar Chandrakant Patel (Hillsborough, N.J.), Jitender Singh (Robbinsville, N.J.), Matthew Blake Bledsoe (Charlotte, N.C.), Jennifer Corzo (Ewing, N.J.) and Scott Fletcher Davidson (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing a self-service application within a virtual environment comprises a processor associated with a server. The processor receives a request with a first user data from a user device t...