ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,173, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC.

"Gameplay roulette" was invented by Courtney Yingling (San Mateo, Calif.) and Rui Yang (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for selecting new interactive content titles for users is disclosed. A plurality of user profiles is stored in memory. Each user profile including one or more preferences and historic gameplay data associated with a user associated with the user profile. A request to select a new interactive content title for the user over a communication network from a client device associated with the user profile is re...