ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,311, issued on March 31, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Performance prediction for virtualized gaming applications" was invented by Douglas Horn (San Francisco), Pujun Lun (Mountain View, Calif.) and Joseph McCarthy (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may receive, from a computing device, an indication of one or more device characteristics of the computing device. The computing system may determine, using a gaming performance model trained using machine learning to determine predicted performance scores of the gaming application and based at least in part on the one or more ...