ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,579, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Tracking quantum-based interactions" was invented by Michael Young (Davidson, N.C.), Manu Kurian (Dallas) and Ana Maxim (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for tracking user interactions in a quantum system. An authentication persona may be routed to a quantum processor. The quantum processor may generate a virtual quantum channel. The virtual quantum channel may execute multiple attribute-based authentication chains concurrently. The quantum processor may dynamically change the attributes in the aut...