US Patent Issued to MEDAL on April 29 for "Method and system for detecting common videogame gameplay" (Ohio, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,695, issued on April 29, was assigned to MEDAL B.V. (Naarden, Netherlands).

"Method and system for detecting common videogame gameplay" was invented by Wilhelmus Wilfried Alexander de Witte (Stow, Ohio) and Zaid Deric Osama Elnasser (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method and system electronically detects users engaged in common gameplay using hash values generated based on image processing of designated portions of gameplay image capture. Portions are based on the game, common display area visible to all players. For each player running the executable application, these hash values are generated on an intermittent ...