ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,975, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kabam Inc. (San Francisco).
"Incentivized task completion using chance-based awards" was invented by Michael C. Caldarone (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Stephanie K. Schultz (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game provided to users of a game space may include a task to be performed by the users. A plurality of virtual chance items may be composed. Individual ones of the virtual chance items may be configured to be activated by the users in the game space to obtain virtual awards in the game space. The virtual awards may include one or more primary awards and one or more secondary awards. ...