ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,425, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mullen Industries LLC (Glenshaw, Pa.).
"Location-based games and augmented reality systems" was invented by Jeffrey David Mullen (Glenshaw, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Handheld location based games are provided in which a user's physical location correlates to the virtual location of a virtual character on a virtual playfield. Augmented Reality (AR) systems are provided in which video game indicia are overlaid onto a user's physical environment. A landscape detector is provided that may obtain information about the user's landscape, in addition to the user's location, in order to provide...