ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,346, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Niantic Inc. (San Francisco).
"Dynamically generated local virtual events" was invented by Tim Aldridge (Seattle), Gordon Paul Jeffery III (Kirkland, Wash.) and Stephen Wang (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game server provides game data of a location-based game to a plurality of client devices based on a first set of one or more game designs. First activity data associated with the location-based game is received from the plurality of client devices based on the first set of one or more game designs. The game server determines whether the first activity data from the plurality o...