ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,043, issued on June 2, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC.

"Method and system for creating and sharing video game annotations" was invented by Charles McCoy (San Mateo, Calif.) and True Xiong (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for annotating a video game includes recording a first session of the video game including first gameplay output and first game state data, receiving an annotation including one or more of video, audio, graphics, text, or highlighting, associating the annotation with a selected point in the video game, the selected point corresponding to a selected portion of the first gam...