ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,491, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Intelligent platform for audit response using a meta verse-driven approach for regulator reporting requirements" was invented by Durga Prasad Kutthumolu (Hyderabad, India), Susheel Chiluka (Hyderabad, India), Saravana Kumar PD (Hyderabad, India), Yegappan Alagappan (Chennai, India), Ravikanth Tadepally (Hyderabad, India) and Navin Singh (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure describe methods and systems involving separate, parent (e.g., public) and child (e.g., private) metaverses with varying confidentiality and acces...