ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,466, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GN Store Nord A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Method and apparatus for analyzing user-generated performance data" was invented by Thane Kurt Woidan (Chicago), Tino Soelberg (Chicago), Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister (Glenview, Ill.) and Thomas J. Panfil (La Grange, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processor that facilitates a performance of operations. The operations may include obtaining an identification of an action to monitor during a gameplay associated with a game, storing a representation of a sliding window of the...