ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,089, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.

"Methods and systems for cross-platform multiplayer session share" was invented by Dustin S. Clingman (San Mateo, Calif.), Benedikt Neuenfeldt (San Mateo, Calif.), Shinya Yamada (San Mateo, Calif.), Tetsuya Onoda (San Mateo, Calif.), Adil Sherwani (San Mateo, Calif.), Zev Solomon (Tokyo) and Masanao Nishikido (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for processing gameplay invitations are provided. The method includes receiving a request from a first player to share gameplay of a game during a session of gameplay with...