ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,657, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Fusion Holdings Ltd. (Douglas, Isle of Man).

"System for playing a non-gambling game and a method thereof" was invented by Martin Paul Moshal (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for playing a non-gambling game in a SmartPlay or SlowPlay mode is provided. A block of outcomes includes a game outcome for each round of the game. The game outcomes are determined while playing the game offline, and include a mix of true and non-winning game outcomes. Each true game outcome is either a winning or non-winning game outcome. Each indexed record of the block corresponds to an index identifier fr...