ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,013, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Kabam Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for facilitating collaboration between multiple players to achieve a goal in a game" was invented by Kent Wakeford (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Clifford J. Harrington (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to facilitating collaboration between multiple players in an online game to achieve a goal in the game. Achievement of the goal may result in provision of an award related to the goal to one or more of the multiple players and/or to one or more affiliations associated with the multiple player. The goal may comprise a p...