ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,674, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for implementing intelligent interactions in a metaverse" was invented by Ankit Chandra Agarwal (Gurugram, India), Srilaxmi Sreepalli (Hyderabad, India) and Sujatha Balaji (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for implementing intelligent interactions in a metaverse comprises a metaverse server in communication with an entity server. A metaverse server receives an interaction request for an interaction session from a first user avatar to obtain a digital item in a virtual environment. The metaverse server determines...