ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,638, issued on July 1, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing recommendations to improve gameplay" was invented by Rajendran Pichaimurthy (Karnataka, India), Dolphin Masilamany Santha (Karnataka, India) and Prakash Viswanathan (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for recommending a proposed hardware configuration to a first user in response to determining that a performance aspect of the first user having a first hardware configuration playing a multiplayer game is worse than a performance aspect of a second user having a second hardware co...