ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,620, issued on July 1, was assigned to Supercell Oy (Helsinki).

"Apparatus for managing online game, method and system therefor" was invented by Robert Kamphuis (Helsinki), Jonne Loikkanen (Helsinki) and Jon Franzas (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for managing an online game. The apparatus including a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to identify a set of client devices engaged in an online game; identify game parameters associated with client devices in the set; define group of client devices from the set of client devices, wherein the at least one group of client devices includes client device...