ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,407, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KING.COM Ltd. (St. Julian's, Malta).

"Method and apparatus for providing a computer implemented game" was invented by Ville Ikaheimonen (Stockholm), Borja Guillan (Barcelona, Spain) and Sebastian Knutsson (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer device is configured to provide a computer implemented game. A first screen has a first user interactive area associated with a first task, information associated with a progress in completing a plurality of tasks, and a narrative associated with the first task. User input interacting with the first user interactive area causes an update in ...