US Patent Issued to Bank of America on April 7 for "Reverse authenticator of virtual objects and entities in virtual reality computing environments" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,170, issued on April 7, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Reverse authenticator of virtual objects and entities in virtual reality computing environments" was invented by George Anthony Albero (Charlotte, N.C.), Olga Kocharyan (Matthews, N.C.) and Elizabeth Rhodes Kral (Fort Mill, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reverse authentication of (i) virtual objects (e.g., avatars or the like) located in or proximate to sub-environments of virtual reality computing environments and, in some embodiments, (ii) the sub-environments themselves. The virtual object is authenticated as being associated with an individual/...