US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Sept. 9 for "Performing secure data interactions in a virtual environment" (North Carolina, Texas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,918, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Performing secure data interactions in a virtual environment" was invented by Victoria Lynn Dravneek (Charlotte, N.C.), Manu Jacob Kurian (Dallas) and Ana Maxim (Arlington, Va.).

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 a user credential associated with a user and authorizes an avatar of the user to enter a virtual environment. The processor monitors a plurality of data interactions associated with the first user that are performed in the virtual environment, records informati...