ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,684, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Integrating real-world and virtual-world systems" was invented by Anushka Pandey (Chennai, India), Rajat Singla (Noida, India), Siva Kesava (Anantapur, India), Praveen Kumar Parsa (Siddipet, India), Murugan Vasudevan (Coimbatore, India), Krithika Viswanathan (Chennai, India) and Amit Mishra (Chennai, India).
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 first user and authorizes an avatar of the first user to enter a virtual environment. When the ...