ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,401, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for establishing permanent records based on microinteractions" was invented by Brandon Sloane (Indian Land, S.C.) and Vijaya L. Vemireddy (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for establishing permanent records based on micro-interactions. In particular, the system may be configured to identify initiation of an event based on receiving first set of interaction requests from user devices of one or more users, initiate a first set of micro-interactions, wherein initiation of th...