US Patent Issued to Activision Publishing on May 20 for "Systems and methods for converting a bounded gameplay session to an unbounded gameplay session" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,783, issued on May 20, was assigned to Activision Publishing Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for converting a bounded gameplay session to an unbounded gameplay session" was invented by Michael D. Marr (Monroe, Wash.), Keith S. Kaplan (Bothell, Wash.) and Nathan T. Lewis (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for continuous gameplay in a multiplayer video game through an unbounded gameplay session. Players may join, exit, and later rejoin a given unbounded gameplay session at any time. A given unbounded gameplay session may therefore continue indefinitely so long as at leas...