ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,922, issued on May 20, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method to activate a card leveraging a virtual environment" was invented by Amardeep Singh Talwar (New Delhi), Sukanya V (Chennai, India), Shailendra Singh (Thane West, India), Ashutosh Tripathi (Delhi, India), Gaurav Sachdeva (Gurugram, India), Salma Umme (Hyderabad, India), Sharvani Ganachary (Hyderabad, India), Shyam Prasad Rokula (Hyderabad, India), Bhagat Kumar Allugubelly (Hyderabad, India), Kavitha Hariharan (Chennai, India), Charles Joseph Fernandez (Hyderabad, India), Raj Kiran Akkera (Secunderabad, India), Sarabjeet Kaur (Delhi, India) and Jai Issrani (Benares, India).

According ...