ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,294, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for electronic game control with voice detection and audio stream processing" was invented by Glenn Black (San Francisco) and Murugan Rajenthiran (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, process, and device configurations are provided for electronic game control with voice detection and audio stream processing. A method can include controlling presentation of electronic game content on a display, receiving an audio input stream including voice data for at least one user of the electronic game and detecting at le...