ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,892, issued on May 13, was assigned to GameDriver Inc. (Martinez, Calif.).
"Video game testing and automation framework" was invented by Phillip Todd Mayhew (Cary, N.C.), Shane Christopher Evans (Martinez, Calif.) and Robert John Gutierrez (British Columbia, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated video game testing framework and method includes communicatively coupling an application programming interface (API) to an agent in a video game, where the video game includes a plurality of in-game objects that are native to the video game. The agent is managed as an in-game object of the video game. A test script is executed to...