US Patent Issued to Kabam on April 7 for "System and method for providing external notifications of events in a virtual space to users" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,047, issued on April 7, was assigned to Kabam Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for providing external notifications of events in a virtual space to users" was invented by Stephanie Mello (San Francisco), Jonathan Calipes (San Bruno, Calif.), Deepak Polamarasetty (Fremont, Calif.) and Wendy Yu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "External notifications of events that take place within a virtual space may be provided to users. External notifications may be sent, for example, via email, text message, instant message (external from the virtual space), push notification and/or through other external communication media. T...