US Patent Issued to Bank of America on April 29 for "System and method for using a validated card in a virtual environment" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,307, issued on April 29, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for using a validated card in a virtual environment" was invented by Shailendra Singh (Thane West, India), Saurabh Arora (Gurugram, India), Sandeep Chauhan (Hyderabad, India) and Puneetha Polasa (Secunderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for using a validated card in a virtual environment comprises a processor associated with a server. The processor is configured to receive a request to conduct an interaction between a first avatar and an entity in a virtual environment. The processor is further configured to rece...