ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,518, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Techniques for identifying application events" was invented by Kunjan Shridhar Naik (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Alex Bu (Santa Ana, Calif.), Peter Han (Chino Hills, Calif.), Mickey Ottis Williams (Fallbrook, Calif.) and Brian Fisher (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for identifying application events. For instance, system(s) may provide an application, such as a gaming application, by receiving input data generated by a control device and updating states of the application using the input data. Th...