ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,269, issued on May 27, was assigned to Galiant Arts LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Generating and updating non-player character NFTS and methods for use therewith" was invented by Mark Meyers (Austin, Texas), Bruce E. Stuckman (Austin, Texas), John W. Howard (Cedar Park, Texas), Brian G. Howard (Austin, Texas) and Gregory Meador (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-fungible token (NFT) platform operates by: receiving, via a processor, player data to be associated with a non-player character NFT corresponding to a multiplayer game; receiving, via the processor, other data, wherein the other data includes non-player character dat...