ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,850, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Systems and methods for testing an NPC" was invented by Celeste Bean (San Francisco), Tooba Ahsen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kristie Ramirez (San Jose, Calif.) and Victoria Dorn (Hayward, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for testing a non-player character (NPC) for use in a video game are described. One of the methods includes generating parameters that define characteristics of the NPC. The characteristics include data that define visual features for the NPC, physical features for the NPC, and context features for a test video ga...