ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,047, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Topia Interactive Inc. (Indio, Calif.).

"Client authoritative state distribution system" was invented by Chris Psiaki (Indio, Calif.) and Daniel Liebeskind (Indio, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process includes establishing a peer-to-peer connection between a first client computing device and a second client computing device. The first client computing device is associated with a first participant in a coordinate grid environment provided by an application and the second client computing device is associated with a second participant in the coordinate grid environment. The process inclu...