US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 11 for "Method and apparatus providing a computer implemented game" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,860, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and apparatus providing a computer implemented game" was invented by Victor Rodriguez (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer device provides a computer implemented game. A display displays game elements in a game board which has tiles. A first type of game element occupy two or more tiles and a second type of game element occupy one tile. The first type of game element has layers with each layer associated with a matching characteristic. A user interface detects user input when a user engages with a game element in a mov...