ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,636, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to NCSOFT Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for targeting object in game" was invented by Hyun Ku Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kyung Hwan Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jong Soo Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sung Heun Bae (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Won Jong Son (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hwan Eui Yang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Yong Ki Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Su Jae Lim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sung Won Jang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Woo Young Cho (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Won Min Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jung Rok Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S...