ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,732, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KING.COM Ltd. (St. Julian's, Malta).

"Method and apparatus for providing a computer implemented application" was invented by Farshid Hassani Bijarbooneh (Stockholm), Par Johan Eklund (Stockholm) and Jacob Alexander Jansson Weinberg (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device provides a computer implemented game. When there is a change in the state of the game, the updated state is applied to the game being played on the client device. The client device sends a request associated with the change in state to the server. The changes in state are verified by a response received from t...