ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,819, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for authenticating a resource transfer in a peer-to-peer resource sharing electronic network" was invented by Vishal Patangia (West Hills, Calif.) and Joehinth Danishkumar Samuel Theodore (Fort Mill, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for authenticating a resource transfer in a peer-to-peer resource sharing electronic network. In particular, the system may receive a request from a first endpoint device to execute a resource transfer with a second endpoint device. The request from the first endpoint device may co...