ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,084, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for improving interactions performed in a virtual environment" was invented by Suryanarayan Parthasarathi Chakravarthi (Tamilnadu, India) and Chetan Singh Naruka (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor receives from a first user device a request from a first user to perform a first task in a virtual environment and presents a first scene to the first user in the virtual environment. Upon determining that the first user has not responded within a thr...