ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,440, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mythical Inc. (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for shared control of benefit-producing virtual territory through the exchange of fungible digital articles" was invented by Cameron Thacker (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to control benefit-producing virtual territories in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players; receive instructions from sets of players to obtain access to distributions associated with particular virtual territories i...