ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,677, issued on March 4, was assigned to Skillz Platform Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for remotely interacting with cloud-based client applications" was invented by Meidad Glory (San Francisco), Aharon Weisberg (Ridgefield, Wash.) and Andrew Fead (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enabling various devices to remotely interact with cloud-based client applications are provided. A method comprises receiving a first request from a first client device of a user to initiate an interactive session with a cloud-based client application, reserving an application engine for executing the cloud-bas...