ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,636, issued on April 21.
"Awareness-based non-player character decision techniques" was invented by William Arthur Gordon (Apopka, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system may provide for interactable environment geometry (IEG) detection. The gaming system may determine a sensory perspective of a sense of a non-player character (NPC) in a virtual environment of a game simulation, generate perception data of the NPC from the sensory perspective of the sense, input the perception data of the NPC into a detection model associated with the sense and receive, from the detection model, detection data for a detected item. The ga...