ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,908, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for generating notifications for an avatar to conduct interactions within a metaverse" was invented by Pavan Kumar Chayanam (Alamo, Calif.), Indradeep Dantuluri (Harrisburg, N.C.), Prashanth Kolar (Dublin, Calif.), Darshan Kokkanaghatta Nanjegowda (Charlotte, N.C.), Arunachalam Packirisamy (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and Navdeep Mahajan (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating notifications to greet and facilitate an avatar to conduct interactions comprises a processor associated with a server. The processo...