ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,500, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Content modification system and method" was invented by Andrew William Walker (London) and Sahin Serdar Kocdemir (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content modification system operable to modify video game content in dependence upon the time available to a user of a processing device, the system comprising an input receiving unit operable to receive inputs from one or more devices indicative of an expected duration of a function being performed by a respective device, an available time determination unit operable to determine, in dependence up...