ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,478, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Virtual environment guiding method and system" was invented by Paul Terence Mulligan (London), Mark Anthony (London), Jun Yen Leung (London) and Richard Carter (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of guiding a user within a virtual environment in a current session. The method includes receiving data relating to user interactions with the virtual environment of a plurality of other users in a plurality of previous sessions, where a predetermined event occurred in user interactions of each of the other users; determining a...