US Patent Issued to Supercell on Aug. 4 for "Method and system for managing multiplayer game sessions" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,552, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Supercell Oy (Helsinki).

"Method and system for managing multiplayer game sessions" was invented by Lassi Leppinen (Espoo, Finland) and Tommi Hakala (Sipoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a game session of a multiplayer game is provided. A request to start a game session of the multiplayer game is received from a first party. The first party is associated with a first category of players of the multiplayer game, and the number of players within the first category is determined. If the number of players within the first category is below a threshold number, an invite ...