ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,598, issued on May 19, was assigned to Riot Games Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Dynamic event-based ranking methods and systems" was invented by Yilin He (Los Angeles) and Sean Szopinski (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamic events-based ranking servers including a processor. The server also includes a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory includes at least event data, player skill data, and game logic, which is configured to be processed by the processor in order to execute a game with a plurality of players until a game conclusion is reached. The memory further includes event captur...