ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,588, issued on May 19, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Controller state management for client-server networking" was invented by Luke Timmins (Bellevue, Wash.) and Gregory Peng (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for transmitting state data between a controller and another electronic device. In embodiments, such techniques may comprise receiving, at a user device, input that relates to a first action to be performed by an avatar; providing, to a second electronic device, a first set of state data generated from the received input over a first communic...