US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 28 for "Tracking and representing video game help sessions" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,380, issued on July 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Tracking and representing video game help sessions" was invented by Monica Ann Adjemian (Los Angeles), Jennifer R. Guriel (Kirkland, Wash.) and Gershom Payzer (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed concepts relate to tracking and representing help sessions for video games where video game players are assisted by a helper, e.g., another video game player and/or a trained machine learning model. For instance, the disclosed implementations can graphically modify a controllable entity, such as a character or vehicle, to con...