ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,701, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Game analytics using natural language processing" was invented by Anna Kipnis (San Bruno, Calif.), Ji Hun Kim (Mountain View, Calif.) and Daniel Cary (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor executes program code that represents a portion of a video game and adds a sequence of text strings that represent game events to a text log during execution of the program code. The processor (or another processor that has access to the text log) performs a natural language processing (NLP) analysis of the text log to determine one or more characteri...