ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,856, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Object motion within a video game" was invented by Yangming Wen (Newark, Calif.), Yichi Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Harold Henry Chaput (Castro Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video game system and method analyze virtual contact between an avatar and a virtual object within a video game. The point of contact of the virtual contact on the virtual object and/or the intensity of contact of the virtual contact may then be used to determine a subsequent virtual action to be performed within the video game. The virtual action, with any vir...