ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,383, issued on July 28, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Spectator system in online games" was invented by Yuval Noimark (Binyamina, Israel), Jeffrey E. Skelton (West Kelowna, Canada), Henrik Karlsson (North Vancouver, Canada) and Eneko Bilbao (North Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectator system may provide for spectating in online gaming. The spectator system may receive, at a spectator server, game state data from a game simulation server hosting an online game for one or more players, generate one or more spectator game state data corresponding to one or more spectator devices and...