US Patent Issued to RIOT GAMES on Oct. 20 for "Selective indication of off-screen object presence" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,410, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to RIOT GAMES INC. (Los Angeles).

"Selective indication of off-screen object presence" was invented by Kam-Wing Fung (Los Angeles), Li Jia Tan (Los Angeles), Brian Carter Feeney (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and Christina Norman (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and media are provided for the selective indication of the presence of off-screen objects in the shared gaming environment of a multiplayer game played on a mobile device. The shared gaming environment can include a game space and a plurality of objects located at various places of the game space. The player may view a...