ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,429, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Skillz Platform Inc. (Las Vegas).

"System and method for matching users of client applications" was invented by Andrew Reynolds Meckel (San Francisco), Matthew Palmer (Los Angeles), Samuel York Baker (San Francisco), Scott M. Halladin (Portland, Ore.), Kevin Babb (Oakland, Calif.) and Scott L. Gregoire (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a request, from a first user of a plurality of users of an application client executing on respective mobile devices of the plurality of users, to interact with one or more other users of the plurality of users in the application clie...