ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,260, issued on March 11, was assigned to Kabam Inc. (San Francisco).
"System and method for providing dynamic and static contest prize allocation based on in-game achievement of a user" was invented by Luc Pieron (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the disclosure relates to providing dynamic and static contest prize allocation based on in-game achievement of a user in an online game in order to encourage players to continue to purchase items to improve their tournament metrics even if they may be unable to improve their tournament rank. For example, calculation of a dynamic prize may comprise for rank x, the ...