ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,406, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and methods for cloud-based virtual private secured contained communication portal" was invented by Naga Vamsi Krishna Akkapeddi (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for a cloud-based virtual private secured contained communication portal. The present disclosure is configured to receive a request from a user device to connect to one or more entity representatives; analyze the request to determine a device identifier and customer identification number; access an entity...