US Patent Issued to Kabam on March 24 for "System and method for providing virtual items to users of a virtual space" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,097, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kabam Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for providing virtual items to users of a virtual space" was invented by John Kim (San Francisco), Kevin Lee (Fremont, Calif.), Kevin Chanthasiriphan (San Francisco), Wei-Ling Wu Deckinga (Cupertino, Calif.) and Tomi Huttula (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Participation by multiple users in an online game through client computing platforms associated with the users is facilitated. User accounts associated with the users indicate affiliations having a functional significance between users. Presentation of offers to sell virtual ...