US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 2 for "Detecting events in a livestream video of a video game in an esports competition" (Georgia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,393, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting events in a livestream video of a video game in an esports competition" was invented by Willie Owens (Atlanta), Nathan Welch (Atlanta) and Donald Frank Brinkman Jr. (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system described herein is configured to obtain a video of a video game being played by a video game player, where an esports competition includes play of the video game by the video game player. The computing system is additionally configured to identify, in the video and through use of machine vision technologies, oc...