ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,342, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Zynga Inc. (San Francisco).
"Touchscreen game user interface" was invented by Matthew Hemby (Hove, Great Britain), Kevin Michael Adsett (Hove, Great Britain) and Jameson Francis Thatcher (Hove, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swipe input mechanism for a computer-implemented game presented on a touchscreen allows for user-selection of different menu options by swipe gestures in different directions via a swipe menu dedicated to receiving such swipe input. In a third person shooter game or a first-person shooter game user-selection of different character abilities are enabled via the...