ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,615, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Constraining the amount of simulation state to rewind based on input relevancy distance" was invented by Karl Berg (Vancouver, Canada), Joseph Pease (San Diego), Neema Teymory (Vancouver, Canada) and Alan Krause (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulation environment (e.g., multi-player game) hosted by a provider network may reduce the amount of state data that needs to be rewound when performing simulation and verification of locally predicted entity states from a client device (backward reconciliation). When the simulation server receives an inp...