US Patent Issued to Backbone Labs on July 14 for "Cloud game queueing" (Washington, California, Oregon, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,689, issued on July 14, was assigned to Backbone Labs Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.).

"Cloud game queueing" was invented by Timothy Aldridge (Seattle), Casey Chow (Seattle), Christopher Blair (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Rohan Kapur (San Francisco), Shawn O'Connor (Portland, Ore.), Maneet Khaira (Vancouver, Wash.) and Kauhi Kukulukahalelaupilionaali'i Hookano (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some cloud gaming and other remote game environments require a user to wait in a queue before playing a game. During this time, the user may be concerned that they will lose their place in the queue if they close the window displaying the game to do a...