ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,755, issued on May 6, was assigned to Galiant Arts LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Facilitating generation of unique game characters 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 game system operates by: receiving character attribute selection data to be associated with a game character, wherein the character attribute selection data indicates a subset of a set of character attributes of a character attribute database; generating, based on the cha...