US Patent Issued to FANDEX on Oct. 14 for "Virtual card game linked to player performance in an event and methods and systems for providing the same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,993, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FANDEX INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Virtual card game linked to player performance in an event and methods and systems for providing the same" was invented by Edward Tiryakian (Durham, N.C.), Matthew D'Alessandro (Durham, N.C.), Nicholas Canova (Durham, N.C.) and Kyle Carrozza (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual card game including a game server coupled to an events database with event data and a players database with player data; a plurality of game clients associated with game participants each coupled to the game server; wherein each game client transmits a pay-in amount to the g...