US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 27 for "Context-based version selection for streaming video games" (New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,637, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Context-based version selection for streaming video games" was invented by Mark J. Mcnulty (Renton, Wash.) and Akshar Pandia (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed concepts relate to streaming video games. One example method involves providing access to a plurality of versions of a particular video game application over a network. The example method also involves receiving a request to launch the particular video game application from a particular client device, obtaining context information relating to the request to launch ...