ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,154, issued on June 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for image authenticated data transfers between electronic devices in a distributed network" was invented by Shanthini Devi Annamalai (Chennai, India) and Durgesh Singh Yadav (Gautam Buddha Nagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided herein for image authenticated data transfers between electronic devices in a distributed network. An example method includes receiving a request for data transfer from a first user device associated with a first user that defines one or more da...