ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,376, issued on July 28, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Modality-expanding gaming experience" was invented by Chockalingam Ravi Sundaram (Belmont, Calif.), Lakshmish Kaushik (San Jose, Calif.), Ayush Raina (Foster City, Calif.) and Kusha Sridhar (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for expanding the output modalities of a gameplay session. Gameplay input data, such as audio data, video data, haptics data, and Gameplay context data, can be processed using machine learning (ML) models to generate output state vectors, which can be used to drive st...