ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,950, issued on April 15, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and system for smart voice chat in multiplayer gaming" was invented by Anjum Makkar (Punjab, India), Ishan Dhanwal (Haryana, India), Vivek Sehgal (Uttar Pradesh, India), Simranjeet Gill (Punjab, India) and Cato Yang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing smart communications in a video game environment are disclosed. A first positional vector of a first user within a video game environment and a second positional vector of a second user within the video game environment are determined. In a first communic...