ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,638, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Virtual assistant factory computing platform" was invented by ChellaPrabhu Andrew Mariadoss (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the disclosure relate to a virtual assistant factory that supports back office operations within a computing system. Various internal services (e.g., banking services, user management services, and the like) may be accessible to external application via an application programming interface. In some cases, a virtual assistant factory computing platform may expose services that call on and/or are tie...