ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,925, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Secure data interactions performed by an internet of things (IoT) device" was invented by Subburathinam Krishnan (Chennai, India), Prabhakaran Balasubramanian (Vellore, India), Durga Prasad P Khuttumolu (Hyderabad, India) and Yugandhar Jaini (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to receiving a tagging request to map a first non-fungible token (NFT) to a first user device, a processor transmits an authorization request to a second user device to map the first NFT to the first user device. In response to receiving an approval of t...