ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,668, issued on March 11, was assigned to Supercell Oy (Helsinki).
"Randomized movement control" was invented by Markus Pasula (Helsinki) and Jaakko Iisalo (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes generating and displaying graphical user interface on a display screen of apparatus; receiving a request to move at least one group of objects to a target area on the graphical user interface, and detecting when at least one obstacle lies in a path between the target area and at least one group of objects. When it is detected that at least one obstacle lies in the path, instructions are generated to co...