ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,653, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Multi-form game platform for online and social gaming" was invented by Ashish Gupta (Uttar Pradesh, India), Mayank Agarwal (Uttar Pradesh, India), Milind Shrivastava (Uttar Pradesh, India), Nitin Varshney (Uttar Pradesh, India), Pardeep Rathee (Haryana, India), Sandeep Agarwal (Haryana, India) and Vinay Khandelwal (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The innovations disclosed herein concern improvements for a hosted gaming environment to provide improved flexibility, scalability, and game deployment/maintenance. In particular, the multi-f...