US Patent Issued to Activision Publishing on June 24 for "Internet of things based video game play" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,238, issued on June 24, was assigned to Activision Publishing Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Internet of things based video game play" was invented by Robert Frederick Ford (Novato, Calif.) and Paul Reiche III (Novato, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual game world may have game locations based on electronic devices with communications capabilities. In some embodiments electronic devices with communications capabilities are identified to a server, which forms a game location for the identified devices, or at least some of them. The game locations may have non-player controlled game characters as inhabitants of the game loc...