ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,588, issued on July 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Video game overlay" was invented by Alexandru-Marian Damian (Zurich, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed subject matter can receive a source video and identifies one or more player actions based on the source video. A second video can be received that is based on a currently executing game environment. A portion of the source video that exhibits a first gameplay situation that is similar to a gameplay situation in the second video can be determined. A property of the determined portion of the source...