ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,163, issued on May 20, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for managing metaverse instances" was invented by Saurabh Arora (Gurugram, India), Sandeep Kumar Chauhan (Hyderabad, India), Puneetha Polasa (Telangana, India), Sanchit Taggar (New Delhi) and Bhagya Lakshmi Sudha Lavanya Mallidi (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing metaverse instances includes registering a physical control level for a user. The physical control level includes information about physical locations and data items that the user is allowed to access within an entity. A digital identity is g...