US Patent Issued to Truist Bank on Dec. 2 for "Virtual reality environment for teaching children about money" (North Carolina, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,329, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Virtual reality environment for teaching children about money" was invented by Ronald Lee Ratcliffe Jr. (Garner, N.C.), Reinaldo Gamaliel Rivera Colon (Raleigh, N.C.) and Jennifer Merten (Brookhaven, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual reality environment for teaching children about money is provided. For example, a computing system can generate a virtual reality environment associated with a child user account linked to a parent user account. The virtual reality environment can include an interactive gaming element. The computing system can output the vir...