ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,971, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for electronic resource transfers in a distributed network via network-paired resource transfer devices" was invented by Sandeep Verma (Haryana, India), Nandini Rathaur (Maharashtra, India), Pavan Chayanam (Alamo, Calif.) and Srinivas Dundigalla (Waxhaw, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for electronic resource transfers in a distributed network via network-paired resource transfer devices. The present invention is configured to receive login credentials from a use...