ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,844, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for cloud gaming" was invented by Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.) and Reda Harb (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for virtual machine management in a cloud computing system. The systems and methods comprise receiving a game play session setup request from a user device, retrieving, in response to the session setup request, a user settings profile. The user settings profile comprises a service level agreement for session setup. A first hardware request is sent to a virtual machine manager. The first...