US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on Oct. 20 for "Detecting collusion in online games" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,420, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Detecting collusion in online games" was invented by Laura Greige (Boston), Meredith Trotter (San Francisco), Sundeep Narravula (Saratoga, Calif.), Navid Aghdaie (San Jose, Calif.) and Fernando de Mesentier Silva (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collusion detection system may detect collusion between entities participating in online gaming. The collusion detection system may identify a plurality of entities associated with and opponents within an instance of an online game, determine social data associated with the plurality of entiti...