ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,434, issued on July 8.

"String handler and method for handling strings useable for games" was invented by Johannes Hendro Yuniko Setiowaty (Sprundel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Word games are known from for example Scrabble(R). Roulette is another game having a high level of randomness to it. A disadvantage of the current games involving randomness, more specific a lot of randomness, is that the word skills of players with a strategy insight is not challenged very well. According to the invention, a string handler comprising: a random character generator for generating a random character randomly selected from a set of...