ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,185, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for authenticating an avatar associated with a user within a metaverse using biometric indicators" was invented by George Anthony Albero (Charlotte, N.C.), Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Prashant Thakur (Grandhinagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for extracting a plurality of biometric indicators from a user profile stored in a memory of a server, wherein the plurality of biometric indicators is derived from the user using facial recognition and fingerprint analysis. The system embeds the extracted plurality ...