US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for detecting negative gameplay behavior and toxic gameplay control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,359, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for detecting negative gameplay behavior and toxic gameplay control" was invented by Michael Taylor (San Mateo, Calif.), Coimbatore Ravi Madhavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Richard Olabode (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, process and device configurations are provided for detecting negative gameplay behavior and gameplay control. A method can include receiving gameplay data for a plurality of players for a game, wherein the gameplay data includes player input controls for the plurality of players. The proc...