ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,626, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TRUIST BANK (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Video game environment engagement simulation" was invented by Ilya Vikulin (St. Augustine, Fla.) and Daniel M. Wilson (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods train, using training data, a prediction model by iteratively predicting a target variable value of an engagement event associated with an online video game application, identifying an error between a prediction and the target variable value, and modifying weights of the prediction model for multiple iterations. The training data includes information obtained from the online vi...