US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on July 14 for "Cognitive load assistance method and system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,009, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Cognitive load assistance method and system" was invented by Rajeev Gupta (London), Jason Craig Millson (London) and Mark Jacobus Breugelmans (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cognitive load assistance method includes: providing a virtual environment comprising a route to complete a current task, and providing within the virtual environment one or more interactive elements not essential to the current task that may be encountered during normal performance of the current task, receiving an indication that cognitive load assistance is required,...