ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,873, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for authentication of device transfers in a distributed network" was invented by Vinod Maghnani (Haryana, India), Sarika Agarwal (Haryana, India), Amit Mehndiratta (New Delhi) and Tulasi Bhavani Nekkanti (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for authentication of device transfers in a distributed network. The present disclosure is configured to receive a transaction request, wherein the transaction request comprises a secondary user device, wherein the second...