US Patent Issued to Activision Publishing on July 21 for "Systems and methods for efficient content management and distribution for video game development" (Maine, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,930, issued on July 21, was assigned to Activision Publishing Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for efficient content management and distribution for video game development" was invented by Adrian Astley (Portland, Maine) and Sean Houghton (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for distributing an image file and a plurality of data chunks in a video game development environment include at least one game studio that has a plurality of client computing devices and at least one cache node in data communication with each other over a first network local to the at least one game studio. The plurali...