ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,631, issued on July 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Securing a multiplayer deterministic simulation using a partial simulation" was invented by Eric Allard (St-Andre d'Argenteuil, Canada), Karim Osman (Montreal) and Bram Roger Vermeulen (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network simulation systems and methods to execute and manage simulations or games are disclosed. The simulations or games are managed so that participants of each team are prevented from having access to information which they are not expected or supposed to have in the context of a fair simulation or game. To do this, a server, in additi...