US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Nov. 18 for "Virtual environment-to-real world secured communication channel" (North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,812, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Virtual environment-to-real world secured communication channel" was invented by Catalina Enciso (Mooresville, N.C.), Kathleen Hanko Trombley (Oakboro, N.C.) and Heather Dolan (Sarasota, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a virtual environment device and an entity device. The virtual environment device receives interaction initiate message from an avatar being operated in a virtual environment. The interaction initiate message includes a request to provide a particular resource to a user in the real world, identity token indicating t...