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: 11565184
    Abstract: Systems and methods for linking physical items to virtual content. Exemplary implementations may: receive a first request to verify whether a first activation of a first item has occurred; if not, transmit a notification in reply to the first request; receive, from a first user, a second request to effectuate the first activation of the first item and to make particular virtual content accessible to the first user; modify state of a smart contract on a decentralized database such that subsequent requests confirm the first activation has occurred; establish a link between the first item and the first user such that the particular virtual content is accessible to the first user; and responsive to the particular virtual content being accessible to the first user, transmit a second notification in reply to the second request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: John Linden, Cameron Thacker
  • Patent number: 11568600
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using natural language processing (NLP) to automatically generate three-dimensional objects in a virtual space are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain three-dimensional objects using a three-dimensional voxelized format; encode those objects, using a variational autoencoder, into pairs of vectors that are subsequently sampled; decode the sampled vectors; determine loss information for the decoded voxelized three-dimensional objects; use the loss information to train the variational autoencoder; fine-tune a pretrained text-based system; receive user input describing a three-dimensional object; generate a vector from the user input; decode the vector into a voxelized three-dimensional object; present the voxelized three-dimensional object to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20230001301
    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: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20230001302
    Abstract: Systems and methods to distribute geolocation-specific 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 player-configurable sensitivity 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; determine geolocation information for the first and second player; evaluate whether to distribute and/or adjust the benefits, based on the real-world information and the geolocation information; and provide the (adjusted) distributions of benefits accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11517822
    Abstract: Systems and methods to effectuate challenges between unique digital articles, the challenges being evaluated based on particular 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; present a first user interface to a first player that enables the first player to define an objective for a challenge between a first and a second unique digital article, define one or more stakes for this challenge, and invite the second player to partake in this challenge, record executable code on a permanent registry to evaluate the challenge, based on real-world information; and responsive to the first or second unique digital article winning the challenge, distribute the one or more stakes to the first or second player, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11521190
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating transactions of virtual items between users of an online game are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a sales request that indicates a selling user will be offering for sale a particular virtual item from a seller's inventory through an online sales platform; assign the ownership of the particular virtual item temporarily to a holding account; publish a sales listing of the particular virtual item on the online sales platform; receive sales information from the online sales platform indicating whether the particular virtual item has been purchased; assign the ownership of the particular virtual item to the buyer's account; and transfer at least a portion of a sales amount received from the buying user to the seller's account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Rudy Koch, Liwen Kao, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20220379226
    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: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20220374698
    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: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: John Linden Gosson, Roger Levinson
  • Publication number: 20220370922
    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: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11504631
    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: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11494596
    Abstract: Systems and methods for converting video information into electronic output files are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain video information defining one or more videos; select a subset of the visual content included in the video content of the particular video; perform object detection to detect objects in the selected subset; perform motion detection to detect a movement for one or more of the detected objects in the selected subset, responsive to the object detection detecting one or more detected objects; and generate and store an electronic output file, responsive to the detection of the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, Chris Downs, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20220347578
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating distribution of in-game instructions pertaining to an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: create an asset that includes and/or refers to a set of in-game instructions provided by a first user of the online gaming platform; receive a request, from a second user of the online gaming platform, for execution of the set of in-game instructions to facilitate a first transformation of one or more particular in-game assets; perform a first verification whether the second user owns the asset; and transform the one or more particular in-game assets into one or more particular transformed and/or new in-game assets in accordance with the set of in-game instructions and the request for the first transformation, responsive to the first verification verifying that the second user owns the asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11484796
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating distribution of in-game instructions pertaining to an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: create an asset that includes and/or refers to a set of in-game instructions provided by a first user of the online gaming platform; receive a request, from a second user of the online gaming platform, for execution of the set of in-game instructions to facilitate a first transformation of one or more particular in-game assets; perform a first verification whether the second user owns the asset; and transform the one or more particular in-game assets into one or more particular transformed and/or new in-game assets in accordance with the set of in-game instructions and the request for the first transformation, responsive to the first verification verifying that the second user owns the asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20220339539
    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: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20220284426
    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: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20220266154
    Abstract: Systems and methods to enable users to incentivize particular in-game user behaviors and particular user activities within an online game are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: effectuate presentation of an incentive interface that enables a first user to define a social agreement of a set of activities for a second user to perform and incentives for the set of activities that the second user can earn, and specify the second user to propose the social agreement to; effectuate presentation of the social agreement to the second user via an online gaming platform; receive an indication of acceptance to the social agreement; generate instructions to form the social agreement as a smart contract and transfer such to a decentralized ledger server for recordation; and receive indication of execution of the set of activities and, in responsive, provide the incentives to the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20220266149
    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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: John Linden, Rudy Koch
  • Publication number: 20220258060
    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: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: John Linden
  • Patent number: 11413527
    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: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20220230261
    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: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: John Linden, Rudy Koch