ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,479, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).
"Game platform feature discovery" was invented by Ryan Sutton (Venice, Calif.), Jason Grimm (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Satish Uppuluri (Dublin, Calif.), Elizabeth Ruth Juenger (San Francisco), Gary Grossi (San Francisco), Yuji Tsuchikawa (Culver City, Calif.), Mingtao Wu (San Francisco) and Brian Parsons (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Feature discovery includes determining what a user is doing or trying to do with respect to a computer platform from situational awareness information relating to the user's use of the platform. Feature disco...