US Patent Issued to RIOT GAMES on Aug. 12 for "Targeting of an individual object among a plurality of objects in a multi-player online video game" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,835, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RIOT GAMES INC. (Los Angeles).

"Targeting of an individual object among a plurality of objects in a multi-player online video game" was invented by Michael Longqiang Zhang (Playa Vista, Calif.) and Alexander Nixon Huang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and media are provided for improved targeting of an individual object among a plurality of objects in a mutli-player online video game. The video game may include plurality of objects located at various places at a given frame. At each frame, a position of the objects is identified. If a player object is within a pred...