ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,201, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Kabam Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for dynamically determining crafting parameters based on user usage rate of a virtual space" was invented by Matthew Curtis (Novato, Calif.), James Koh (Mountain View, Calif.), Kellen Christopher Smalley (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Michael C. Caldarone (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for dynamically determining parameters of crafting activities for individual users in a virtual space are disclosed. The crafting activity parameters may be determined based on rate of usage of the virtual space by the users. In som...