ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,257, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Generating smart contracts for electronic notarization using synthetically generated invisible fingerprint metadata" was invented by Sakshi Bakshi (New Delhi) and Durga Prasad Kutthumolu (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to generating smart contracts for electronic notarization using synthetically generated invisible fingerprint metadata. An apparatus may receive synthetic fingerprint information. In addition, the synthetic fingerprint information may be generated based on one or more physical fingerprint im...