ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,694, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Token thread authentication system for physical space access" was invented by Victoria L. Dravneek (Charlotte, N.C.), Manu Jacob Kurian (Dallas) and Ana Maxim (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for token thread authentication system for physical space access. The present invention is configured to extract and organize collected NFTs and tokens within a first plurality of threads in accordance with a set of chronological and authenticating parameters. The present invention...