Patents by Inventor John Linden

John Linden has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12168181
    Abstract: Systems and methods to support player-initiated proof of in-game participation by unique digital articles in in-game events are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players; record usage information pertaining to player-owned unique digital articles on a permanent registry; present a player interface for a player to select an in-game event; store video information of the selected in-game event; and record references to the stored video information on the permanent registry such that the video information is accessible for viewing by users of the permanent registry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Patent number: 12160524
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining authenticity of non-fungible digital assets are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store information, wherein the stored information includes information regarding a given type of digital assets, including a first digital asset; generate a first quantity of encoded information, based on encoding an identifier of a smart contract and an asset-specific identifier that identifies the first digital asset; generate a digital signature of the first quantity of encoded information, wherein the digital signature is based on a private key associated with the smart contract; and record the first quantity of encoded information and the digital signature as part of the metadata of the first digital asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Thacker, Andrew Royer, John Linden, Liwen Kao
  • Patent number: 12121805
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using re-playable in-game operations to reach particular user game states in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage user inventories for users of the online gaming platform; receive a request, from the first user, for activation of the replay asset by the first user; and execute the set of in-game operations automatically such that a first current user game state for the first user is advanced to a first subsequent user game state for the first user within the online gaming platform, responsive to the activation of the replay asset as requested by the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Patent number: 12106292
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating transfer of ownership of tokens between users on a decentralized database stores a registry of assets and transactions are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store, on electronic storage, a set of code executable by the decentralized database to manifest individual tokens on the decentralized database; and record the set of code on the decentralized database such that the set of code is accessible at a creator address that is associated with the creator of the set of code. Using the functions defined by the set of code, an owner of an individual token can offer to sell the individual token, and a buyer can accept this offer to buy the individual token, at an agreed-upon price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Patent number: 12090397
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using natural language processing (NLP) to control automated gameplay in one or more online games within an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: train a pretrained text-based system to generate sequences indicating one or more activities, wherein activities are associated with characteristics of user-controllable characters such that a particular user-controllable character having a particular characteristic may perform, within the online gaming platform, one or more activities from a particular set that is associated with the particular characteristic; receive user input describing one or more commands; generate, using the pretrained text-based system, a sequence indicating one or more activities based on the user input; transfer the generated sequence to the online gaming platform; effectuate automated execution of activities by the particular user-controllable character in accordance with the generated sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Patent number: 12083438
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide in-game consequences for unique digital articles, the in-game consequences being based on real-world information, are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players, including a first and a second player account associated with a first and a second player; record player-configurable sensitivity of player-owned unique digital articles to be exposed to in-game consequences of either receiving distributions of benefits or losing stakes; determine real-world information based on events that have occurred in the real world; evaluate whether to distribute the benefits or seize the stakes, based on the real-world information; and either provide the distributions of benefits or seize the stakes accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20240242061
    Abstract: Provided are computer systems, methods, and devices for operating an artificial neural network. The system includes neurons. The neurons include a plurality of synapses including charge-trapped transistors for processing input signals, an accumulation block for receiving drain currents from the plurality of synapses, the drain currents produced as an output of multiplication from the plurality of synapses, the drain currents calculating an amount of voltage multiplied by time, a capacitor for accumulating charge from the drain currents to act as short-term memory for accumulated signals, a discharge pulse generator for generating an output signal by discharging the accumulated charge during a discharging cycle, and a comparator for comparing an input voltage with a reference voltage. The comparator produces a first output if the input voltage is above the reference voltage and produces a second output if the input voltage is below the reference voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: John Linden Gosson, Roger Levinson
  • Patent number: 12036477
    Abstract: Systems and methods to enable administrators to incentivize one or both of particular in-game user behaviors and particular in-game user activities via group agreements that govern user groups within an online game are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: John Linden, Rudy Koch
  • Patent number: 11992770
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide and use proof of in-game participation by unique digital articles are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players; record usage information pertaining to player-owned unique digital articles on a permanent registry; determine whether in-game player-controllable virtual items participated in in-game events; generate sets of video information depicting the in-game player-controllable virtual items participating in the in-game events; and record references to the sets of video information on the permanent registry such that the video information is accessible for viewing by users of the permanent registry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20240094595
    Abstract: An optical scanner may include a sampler to receive an optical beam and provide a sampled beam including a portion of the optical beam, a dispersive element to spectrally disperse the sampled beam along a dispersion direction, one or more detectors to receive at least a portion of the sampled beam dispersed along the dispersion direction, one or more acousto-optic deflectors (AODs) configured to deflect the optical beam from the sampler, and a controller. The controller may determine a center of mass of the sampled beam dispersed along the dispersion direction based on signals from at least one of the one or more detectors, and generate a drive signal for at least one of the one or more AODs to deflect the optical beam from the sampler along a selected deflection angle based on the center of mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Itay Peled, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11935146
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide sharing of benefits amongst a group of users are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: effectuate a presentation of an agreement interface for the users to define and/or join group agreements; generate, based on the group agreements, sets of instructions for implementation of the group agreements; transmit the sets of instructions to a decentralized ledger server; receive and executing the transmitted sets of instructions to record the group agreements on the blockchain as smart contracts; record transactions pertaining to the digital assets; responsive to recording the transactions, increase the group account balances by a portion of the earned gains resultant from the recorded transactions; and responsive to an occurrence of at least one of the trigger events specified for the first group agreement, allocate a portion of the group account balance to the group of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: John Linden, Rudy Koch
  • Patent number: 11918911
    Abstract: Systems and methods to distribute benefits to unique digital articles based on real-world information are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players, including a first and a second player account associated with a first and a second player; record and control eligibility of player-owned unique digital articles to receive distributions of benefits; determine real-world information based on events that have occurred in the real world; evaluate whether to distribute the benefits based on the real-world information and on the eligibilities of the player-owned unique digital articles; and provide the distributions accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11865458
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling exchange of tradeable items are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive the first tradeable item from a user; determine whether the received first tradeable item is a valid tradeable item within the online gaming platform by identifying the first tradeable item based on the first item-identifying information and by verifying the first tradeable item is a valid tradeable item within the online gaming platform; responsive to determining the received first tradeable item is valid within the online gaming platform, select a second tradeable item from a repository of tradeable items; and dispense, from the repository, the second tradeable item to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventor: John Linden
  • Publication number: 20230415047
    Abstract: Systems and methods to support player-initiated proof of in-game participation by unique digital articles in in-game events are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players; record usage information pertaining to player-owned unique digital articles on a permanent registry; present a player interface for a player to select an in-game event; store video information of the selected in-game event; and record references to the stored video information on the permanent registry such that the video information is accessible for viewing by users of the permanent registry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20230405459
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using re-playable in-game operations to reach particular user game states in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage user inventories for users of the online gaming platform; receive a request, from the first user, for activation of the replay asset by the first user; and execute the set of in-game operations automatically such that a first current user game state for the first user is advanced to a first subsequent user game state for the first user within the online gaming platform, responsive to the activation of the replay asset as requested by the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20230405471
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transfer of rights pertaining to game assets operate between users of an online gaming platform. Exemplary implementations may: tokenize a game asset into a tokenized game asset; record, on a distributed blockchain, ownership of a beneficiary right to a share resulting from selling the game asset; responsive to a sale of the game asset, transfer the share resulting from the sale to a first beneficiary; responsive to a transfer of ownership of a particular virtual item from the first beneficiary to a second beneficiary, and responsive to a second sale of the game asset, transferring a second share resulting from the second sale to the second beneficiary in accordance with the beneficiary right.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20230410235
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide sharing of benefits amongst a group of users are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: effectuate a presentation of an agreement interface for the users to define and/or join group agreements; generate, based on the group agreements, sets of instructions for implementation of the group agreements; transmit the sets of instructions to a decentralized ledger server; receive and executing the transmitted sets of instructions to record the group agreements on the blockchain as smart contracts; record transactions pertaining to the digital assets; responsive to recording the transactions, increase the group account balances by a portion of the earned gains resultant from the recorded transactions; and responsive to an occurrence of at least one of the trigger events specified for the first group agreement, allocate a portion of the group account balance to the group of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: John Linden, Rudy Koch
  • Publication number: 20230390648
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide in-game consequences for unique digital articles, the in-game consequences being based on real-world information, are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players, including a first and a second player account associated with a first and a second player; record player-configurable sensitivity of player-owned unique digital articles to be exposed to in-game consequences of either receiving distributions of benefits or losing stakes; determine real-world information based on events that have occurred in the real world; evaluate whether to distribute the benefits or seize the stakes, based on the real-world information; and either provide the distributions of benefits or seize the stakes accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20230388132
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining authenticity of non-fungible digital assets are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store information, wherein the stored information includes information regarding a given type of digital assets, including a first digital asset; generate a first quantity of encoded information, based on encoding an identifier of a smart contract and an asset-specific identifier that identifies the first digital asset; generate a digital signature of the first quantity of encoded information, wherein the digital signature is based on a private key associated with the smart contract; and record the first quantity of encoded information and the digital signature as part of the metadata of the first digital asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Cameron Thacker, Andrew Royer, John Linden, Liwen Kao
  • Patent number: 11819765
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transfer of rights pertaining to game assets operate between users of an online gaming platform. Exemplary implementations may: tokenize a game asset into a tokenized game asset; record, on a distributed blockchain, ownership of a beneficiary right to a share resulting from selling the game asset; responsive to a sale of the game asset, transfer the share resulting from the sale to a first beneficiary; responsive to a transfer of ownership of a particular virtual item from the first beneficiary to a second beneficiary, and responsive to a second sale of the game asset, transferring a second share resulting from the second sale to the second beneficiary in accordance with the beneficiary right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, John Linden