US Patent Issued to Niantic on June 24 for "Using location-based game to generate language information" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,227, issued on June 24, was assigned to Niantic Inc. (San Francisco).

"Using location-based game to generate language information" was invented by Herbert Law (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A location-based game may include language learning features to help a player learn a foreign language. To generate these features, the game may generate language information by allowing players to play language gathering games. For example, a virtual character can use a native language of a player to instruct the player to identify an object in an environment. The player may then identify the object in the environment. The playe...