ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,697, issued on April 29, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for metaverse debugging" was invented by Shailendra Singh (Thane West, India), Krithika Viswanathan (Chennai, India), Amit Mishra (Chennai, India), Anu Joy (Chennai, India) and Amaresh Gunasekar (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes monitoring an interaction of a user with a metaverse session. A notification is sent to a first developer that the user is facing an issue while interacting with the metaverse session. The first developer is allowed access to the metaverse session at a location of the issue using ...