ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,194,390, issued on Jan. 14, was assigned to XPLORED S.R.L. (Rapallo, Italy).
"System for identifying and tracking objects on a game board" was invented by Enrico Garofalo (Chiavari, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The finding and object of the invention relates to board games and parlour games characterized by the support of electronic components, such as a PC, tablet, smartphone or game console. More precisely, the invention consists of an economical and easy to construct system, able to identify and track the movements of objects, preferably but not necessarily pawns, on an interactive game board configurable by the user. Said pla...