ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,378, issued on July 28, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Text extraction to separate encoding of text and images for streaming during periods of low connectivity" was invented by Jay Alan Carson (Foster City, Calif.) and Mario M. Sarria Jr. (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including executing a video game on a server to generate draw calls for execution by one or more graphics processing units to render an image frame. The method including a first set of commands of one or more draw calls that are used to render text in the image frame. The method including identifying a second s...