ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,232, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Systems and methods for streaming interactive applications" was invented by Scott David Mosier (Bellevue, Wash.) and Matthew Gordon (Woodinville, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing interaction with a game instance of a game application by a remote user includes, at a distribution node, receiving video information from a game server, encoding the video information into encoded video information, distributing the encoded video information to a client device, receiving a user input from the client device, and transmittin...