Patents Assigned to Wizards of the Coast LLC
  • Game, such as electronic collectable and card or tradable object game employing customizable features
    Patent number: 11911688
    Abstract: A game employing user-modifiable game components, such as cards in a collectable card game, employs various features to provide user-modifiability, including sleeves, transparent cards, stickers, and other elements. Electronic versions of the game and various other features are included, including tracking of history associated with such components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: WIZARDS OF THE COAST LLC
    Inventors: Frank Gilson, Cormac Russell, Paul Sottosanti, Randy Buehler, Ramon Arjona, Karl Robert Gutschera, Brandon Anthony Bozzi, Aaron Joel Forsythe
  • Game, such as electronic collectable and card or tradable object game employing customizable features
    Patent number: 10675533
    Abstract: A game employing user-modifiable game components, such as cards in a collectable card game, employs various features to provide user-modifiability, including sleeves, transparent cards, stickers, and other elements. Electronic versions of the game and various other features are included, including tracking of history associated with such components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Wizards of the Coast, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Gilson, Cormac Russell, Paul Sottosanti, Randy Buehler, Ramon Arjona, Karl Robert Gutschera, Brandon Anthony Bozzi, Aaron Joel Forsythe
  • Distributed customer data management network handling personally identifiable information
    Patent number: 9959397
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for handling Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in a globally compliant manner, across and within governmental or defined synthetic jurisdictions without violating the privacy laws or rules of the involved jurisdictions. Disclosed systems for distributing PII include a regional server in a first jurisdiction with a first set of jurisdictional rules, a central computer and a recipient computer. The recipient computer is located in a second jurisdiction and inputs data conforming to a second set of jurisdictional rules. The central computer communicates with both the regional server and the recipient computer. The central computer masks data coming from the first jurisdiction and from the second jurisdiction so that the data complies with the rules of the destination jurisdiction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Wizards of the Coast LLC
    Inventors: Paul M Kvamme, Simon Blackwell, Arron Goolsbey, Nicholas Mitchell
  • Distributed customer data management network handling personally identifiable information
    Patent number: 9288184
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for handling Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in a globally compliant manner, across and within governmental or defined synthetic jurisdictions without violating the privacy laws or rules of the involved jurisdictions. Disclosed systems for distributing PII include a regional server in a first jurisdiction with a first set of jurisdictional rules, a central computer and a recipient computer. The recipient computer is located in a second jurisdiction and inputs data conforming to a second set of jurisdictional rules. The central computer communicates with both the regional server and the recipient computer. The central computer masks data coming from the first jurisdiction and from the second jurisdiction so that the data complies with the rules of the destination jurisdiction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Wizards of the Coast LLC
    Inventors: Paul M Kvamme, Simon Blackwell, Arron Goolsbey, Nicholas Mitchell