US Patent Issued to Supercell on May 6 for "Method for facilitating user interactions in gaming environment" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,748, issued on May 6, was assigned to Supercell Oy (Helsinki).

"Method for facilitating user interactions in gaming environment" was invented by Touko Tahkokallio (Helsinki) and Tristan Williams (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for facilitating user interactions. The method includes detecting a selection by a pointer device of a first character; detecting a movement of the pointer device towards a target object; presenting an indicator; detecting that the pointer device is within a predetermined distance of the target object; determining whether a job to be executed with respect to the target object is capable ...