ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,428, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Dynamic modifications of single player and multiplayer mode in a video game" was invented by Harold Henry Chaput (Belmont, Calif.), Jesse Hans Stokes Harder (Redwood City, Calif.), Daniel Lee Kading (Edmonton, Canada), John Christopher Epler (Edmonton, Canada), John Kolen (Foster City, Calif.), Navid Aghdaie (San Jose, Calif.), Kazi Atif-Uz Zaman (Foster City, Calif.), Kenneth Alan Moss (Redwood City, Calif.), Thomas Murray Perlinski (Edmonton, Canada) and Graham Francis Scott (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video game includes ...