US Patent Issued to Niantic on May 20 for "Generating additional content items for parallel-reality games based on geo-location and usage characteristics" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,790, issued on May 20, was assigned to Niantic Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating additional content items for parallel-reality games based on geo-location and usage characteristics" was invented by Piaw Na (Los Altos, Calif.), Jia Huang (Berkley, Calif.), Hang Tan (San Francisco), Steve Zelinka (Bellevue, Wash.) and Herbert Law (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game server generates a parallel-reality game that users may interact with in the real-world. The game server receives user information as users interact with game content. The game server includes a content marketplace that manages the exchange value of addit...