ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,621, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Game console endpoint management bridge for local system game development" was invented by Roelof Roderick Colenbrander (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Ritu Gupta (Cupertino, Calif.) and Maciej Michal Grochowski (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A console compute card for installation in a host system is provided, including: an accelerated processing unit (APU); a Southbridge having a PCIe connection to the APU; an endpoint management bridge (EMB) having a PCIe connection to the Southbridge, the EMB exposing one or more mirrored PCIe endpoints, i...