ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,979, issued on June 10, was assigned to MAPSANDMINIS (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).
"Modular interactive digital game board" was invented by Christophe Duteil (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a modular interactive digital game board comprising one or more touch pads and one or more movable elements (14) comprising at least one near field communication tag (16), each of the touch pads (1) being configured to interconnect and detect one or more of the movable elements (14), the at least one tag (16) being configured such that an identifier is transmitted in the presence of an electromagnetic field....