US Patent Issued on Oct. 7 for "Treasure hunt scavenger game utilizing canisters with NFC tags and a smartphone" (Alaska Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,129, issued on Oct. 7.

"Treasure hunt scavenger game utilizing canisters with NFC tags and a smartphone" was invented by Aaron Johnson (Anchorage, Alaska).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game that includes a game app and several physical containers that are hidden in various locations. A number of teams use the game app to find containers designated for that team to advance. The winning team is the team that finds all the containers assigned to it and reaches the finish line, or, when time runs out, the team that has the most containers. Finding a container assigned to another team does not count. A game master initially sets up the c...