ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,146, issued on May 12, was assigned to NEXON GAMES Co. LTD (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for providing game maps" was invented by Sang Mun Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Dong Il Jeong (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing game maps. The apparatus for providing game maps includes memory configured to store maps for the play of a blast mission game, and a controller configured to provide a map including varied game play environment information for each round of the blast mission game."

The patent was filed on Nov. 23, 2022, under Application...