ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,105, issued on May 26, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Preventing unauthorized participation in collaborative augmented reality and virtual reality meetings" was invented by George Albero (Charlotte, N.C.), Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Deborah Mayers (Charlotte, N.C.) and Jinna Kim (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing hardware and software for enhancing collaborative experience security. A computing platform may receive, from a user device, a request to join an enhanced reality collaborative experience involving use of an avatar in an AR or V...