US Patent Issued to Mythical on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for temporarily ceding control over unique digital articles for player-specified tasks" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,796, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Mythical Inc. (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for temporarily ceding control over unique digital articles for player-specified tasks" was invented by Laura Ann Ulmer (Federal Way, Wash.) and Sung Meen Hong (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to facilitate temporary ceding of control over unique digital articles for performance of player-specified tasks are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may implement a permanent registry; execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players; invite other players to temporarily gain...