ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,174, issued on Oct. 6.

"Proximity based game playing assembly and method of use" was invented by Carl Littles (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proximity based game playing assembly includes a plurality of watches, each having a band to which is attached a housing and which attaches to a wrist of a respective user of a plurality of users. Each watch comprises a receiver, which is Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled, a transceiver, which can wireless pair with an electronic device of the respective user, a microprocessor, and a notification module, that latter of which can notify the respective user of at least one aspe...