US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on July 21 for "Generating a mini-game of a video game from a game play recording" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,931, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Generating a mini-game of a video game from a game play recording" was invented by David Perry (Newport Beach, Calif.), Michael Taylor (San Mateo, Calif.), Warren Benedetto (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) and Dominic S. Mallinson (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for tagging content in a video game title during game play executed on a game cloud system, and social sharing methods. One method includes receiving a pause indication during the game play and suspending the game play to hold the video game title in a current...