US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on Oct. 20 for "Triggering virtual help or hindrance based on audience participation tiers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,425, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC and SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Triggering virtual help or hindrance based on audience participation tiers" was invented by Lachmin Singh (San Mateo, Calif.), Celeste Bean (San Mateo, Calif.), Olga Rudi (San Mateo, Calif.), Katie Egeland (San Mateo, Calif.) and Steven Osman (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods to for encouraging spectator participation by permitting audience participation to provide different types of in-game help or hindrance to eSport players or te...