ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,131, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Hosting a virtual environment-to-virtual environment interaction session" was invented by Saurabh Gupta (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for hosting a virtual environment-to-virtual environment interaction session receives a request to grant access to a particular location in a host virtual environment. The request includes avatar information associated with a first avatar in a first virtual environment. The system generates a software token that uniquely identifies the particular location in the host virtual environment. The system co...