ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,665, issued on March 31, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for securing a virtual reality environment" was invented by Shailendra Singh (Thane West, India), Vinod Maghnani (Gurugram, India), Sunil Bhashetty (Hyderabad, India), Tulasi Nekkanti (Hyderabad, India) and Zakir Basha Shaik (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes rendering on displays of a plurality of extended reality (XR) devices an XR environment. The XR environment includes a first user avatar authorized to interact with an XR application of the plurality of XR applications and a second user avatar una...