ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,139, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ISOVIST Ltd. (London).

"System and method for generating and playing a three dimensional game" was invented by Dale A. Herigstad (London), Jack Turpin (Los Angeles), Eric Fanghanel Santibanez (London) and Jeremy Alcock (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an interactive three dimensional (3D) game includes generating a manipulable volumetric 3D display object. The manipulable volumetric 3D display object includes a plurality of elements. Display data is generated to depict within the plurality of elements of the manipulable volumetric virtual 3D display object...