ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,181, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Data processing apparatus and method" was invented by Mark Jacobus Breugelmans (London), Michael Eder (London), Jun Leung (London), Hogarth Andall (London), Danjeli Schembri (London) and Bee Lay Tan (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: receive a first signal indicative of one or more words communicated from a first user of online content to one or more second users of online content; classify the one or more words using the first signal; receive one or more second signals indicative of ...