ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,159, issued on April 22, was assigned to Kabam Inc. (San Francisco).
"System and method for dynamically adjusting prizes or awards based on a platform" was invented by Clifford J. Harrington (San Francisco) and Kent Wakeford (Hillsborough, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the disclosure relates to implementing a system to encourage cross platform operation in an online game. The online game may provide the ability to provide incentives for participating in cross platform game play. The system may monitor the player's performance on a particular console and provide incentives to accomplish tasks through game play on ...