ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,445, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC.

"Annotating player or spectator sentiment for video game fragment generation" was invented by Charles McCoy (San Mateo, Calif.) and True Xiong (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a game recorder that records a first session of a video game, the first session including game state data generated by processing player input data by a video game processor, an input processor that identifies a location within the video game at which interest of one or more players or spectators exceeds a predetermined threshold, a trained machine l...