Virtual Strongbox Assigned Patent

Virtual Strongbox, Inc., Cornelius, NC, has been assigned a patent (11,386,447) developed by Daly, Jr., Ronald M., Cornelius, NC, and Giambalvo, Leonard, Fort Mill, SC, for an “educational guide module having a reward system for virtual storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An educational guide module including a reward system for a virtual storage system in data communication with a user computing device via a communication network, the virtual storage system includes at least one processor receiving from the user computing device, a selection of at least one of an education guide or the reward system corresponding to the virtual storage system, as input by a user, performing at least one instructional guide operation to instruct the user on operation of the virtual storage system, when the education guide is selected, and performing a reward operation to provide a reward to the user when the reward system is selected. The performance of the reward operation includes displaying at least one question to the user, receiving information input by the user as an answer to the at least one question, storing the information received, and calculating points based on the information received, and wherein the points are used to redeem a reward within the virtual storage system.”

The patent application was filed on July 16, 2021 (17/377,720).