ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,249, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for generating a stream-recommendation" was invented by Daniel Israel Pereira Jimenez (London) and Daniel Goldman (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes communication circuitry and processing circuitry. The communication circuitry is configured to receive, from a requesting device, a stream-recommendation request associated with a player profile, and the processing circuitry responsive to the stream-recommendation request to select, from a list of available game streams, one or more available game streams. ...