ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,068, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Remote device control based on deep linking" was invented by Rajeswari Selvaraj (Harrisburg, N.C.), Abhijit Behera (Hyderabad, India), Madhusekhar Banda (Hyderabad, India) and Maneesh Kumar Sethia (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for remote device control and transaction processing are provided. In some aspects, a local computing device may initiate a communication session with the self-service kiosk. The local computing device may capture self-service kiosk identifying data and may generate a deep link to an application. The ...