ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,824, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Auto-adjust application operation leveraging location of connected devices" was invented by Jennifer Sanctis (Charlotte, N.C.), Srinivas Chavali (Charlotte, N.C.) and Taylor Farris (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that dynamically adjusts an operation of software running on a first mobile device is provided. The system may include an application. The system may include an authentication module configured to authorize a user's login credentials, capture a biometric characteristic of the user, and authenticate the captured biometric ...