ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,452, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Atmosphere.tv (Austin, Texas).

"Interactive trivia" was invented by Justin Martin (Austin, Texas), Leo Resig (Austin, Texas), Jeffrey C. DiTullio (Austin, Texas) and Haley Bubley (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for implementing an interactive trivia game among remotely distributed player devices. In certain embodiments, a method may comprise implementing an interactive trivia game at a trivia service, including establishing a persistent network connection with a plurality of remote player devices participating in the interactive trivia game, and...