US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 3 for "Enabling local split-screen multiplayer experiences using remote multiplayer game support" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,785, issued on March 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enabling local split-screen multiplayer experiences using remote multiplayer game support" was invented by Nikita Tsytsarkin (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presenting a local multiplayer experience for a multiplayer game that includes remote multiplayer support. A computer system establishes a plurality of game streams, each corresponding to a different instance of the multiplayer game. Each game stream corresponds to a different user identifier of a plurality of user identifiers that are joined to a single multiplayer session using...