ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,635, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Kabam Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Systems and methods for incentivizing participation in gameplay events in an online game" was invented by Luther Patenge (San Francisco), Dylan Ortiz (San Francisco), Luc Pieron (San Francisco), Thomas Baxter (Millbrae, Calif.) and Henry Rull (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for incentivizing user participation in gameplay events that take place in an online game are presented herein. The gameplay events may include one or more time intervals that take place during the duration of the gameplay event. The time intervals may be a...