ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,423, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Tesoro XP Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Game platform" was invented by Tawsif Khan (Austin, Texas), Beau Button (Austin, Texas) and Timothy Mahler (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for hosting a location-based virtual environment in which one or more users can participate. Geographic coordinates of the user in real world using data provided by a positioning system may be determined. The real world geographic coordinates of the user may be mapped to virtualized coordinates of an avatar in the virtual environment. The user's real world ...