US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on Aug. 25 for "Version agnostic centralized state management in video games" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,576, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Version agnostic centralized state management in video games" was invented by Robert Joseph Wilkinson (Santa Clarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state system providing version agnostic centralized state management can use node graphs corresponding to virtual entities to maintain a world state among any version of a video game. As states to virtual entities change, corresponding nodes of the node graph are updated in response to the state change to account for and store the state change. As a data structure referencing, associating, and/...