US Patent Issued to American Express Travel Related Services on Oct. 27 for "Event gamification in real time" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,960, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. (New York).

"Event gamification in real time" was invented by Sastry V. Durvasula (Phoenix), Amit Prakash Gupta (Phoenix), Priyadarshini Koul (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Premkumar Manivannan (Phoenix), Sathish Muthukrishnan (Phoenix) and Harish R. Naik (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A consumer may enroll in an event gamification system. An event listener may detect an event. The event gamification system may determine that the event qualifies for a game in which the consumer is enrolled. The event gamification system may transmit an achievemen...