ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,810, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for integrating real-world interactions 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 integrating real-world interactions 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 to conduct a first interactio...