ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,192, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Open game engine and marketplace with associated game editing and creation tools" was invented by Curt Alexander Bererton (Burlingame, Calif.), Thomas Andrew Bererton (Calgary, Canada), Christopher Lee DeLeon (Pacifica, Calif.), David Lee Hershberger (Palo Alto, Calif.), John Michael Nesky (Pacifica, Calif.), Mathilde Elodie Pignol (Burlingame, Calif.) and Joshua Alan Wagner (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a video game development platform. More specifically, aspects of the invention relate to components of...