ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,873, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Augmented and virtual reality security planner" was invented by Michael Young (Davidson, N.C.), Anthony D. Lange (Washington), Tarsha Salley (Charlotte, N.C.), Joshua Shi (Chicago), Madeline Deneen Fest (Charlotte, N.C.), Adam King (Fort Mill, S.C.) and Henrry Batista (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for network augmentation using virtual reality is provided. The system may include uploading data relating to a network, to a network augmentation system. The system may include retrieving data relating to network standards. The system may...