US Patent Issued to The Upper Deck on July 7 for "Game systems and methods" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,254, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Upper Deck Co. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Game systems and methods" was invented by Matthew Evans (West Valley, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can comprise conducting trick phases comprising players playing suit cards each having a suit value. A player can play one or more suit cards, and an opponent can play one or more suit cards. A trick phase winner can be determined based on the total suit value of each player's played suit cards. The trick phase winner can collect all played suit cards, which can be called trick cards. There can be one or more active enemy cards, and the trick p...