ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,314, issued on April 22, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, devices, and systems for interactive cloud gaming" was invented by Dov Zimring (Belmont, Calif.), Thomas Enders (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew Rodgers (San Jose, Calif.), Gurudas Somadder (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jason Pi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for interactive cloud gaming. In one aspect, an interface device with processors and memory storing an application program is used for cloud gaming. The interface device includes a communication module ...