ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,042, issued on March 31, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for maintaining security of virtual objects in a distributed network" was invented by Syed Najumudeen (Telengana, India), Dalydas Karanath (Kerala, India) and Aravinth Selvamani (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for maintaining security of virtual objects in a distributed network. Some embodiments are directed to a system including a first artificial intelligence engine configured to determine viewing angles of avatars moving along access paths in ...