ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,788, issued on June 30.

"Coordinating a multi-player game" was invented by Ray Latypov (Binghamton, N.Y.), Nurali Latypov (Moscow) and Alfred Latypov (Binghamton, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a computing system to facilitate a multi-player game by selecting a group of computing devices operated by respective users, distributing interactive content that includes one or more questions with a set of selectable answers to the group of computing devices, receiving a response to the one or more questions, determining a score based on whether the response is a correct response and a number of computing devices in the grou...