ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,814, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Gamification of training for phishing prevention in metaverse" was invented by Rahul Uniyal (Dehradun Uttarakhand, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, computer program product, and method for training users in phishing prevention may challenge a user with gamified user-specific phishing attacks for a user to encounter in a temporal pattern. Phishing data, including data relating to phishing techniques and actual and non-actual (fake) phishing attacks, may be generated or obtained and input to the training engine. User-related data, including us...