US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Nov. 25 for "Entity authenticator in augmented or virtual reality computing environments" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,733, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Entity authenticator in augmented or virtual reality computing environments" was invented by George Anthony Albero (Charlotte, N.C.) and Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication/verification of sub-environments that represent entities within an augmented/virtual reality computing network and virtual objects present in the sub-environment that represent individuals associated with the entity. In response to authentication, a sensory-perceptible indicator (e.g., visual, audible or haptic indicators) is presented ...