US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on Jan. 27 for "Techniques for assisted gameplay using geometric features" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,588, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Techniques for assisted gameplay using geometric features" was invented by Joakim Hagdahl (Langley, Canada) and Daniel Herdman (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein include using a system for enabling assisted gameplay in a computer game using real-time detection of predefined scene features and mapping of the detected features to recommended actions. For example, the system may generate a scanning query (e.g., a segment cast) toward a target area within a virtual scene, determine a geometric feature based...