ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,462, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for executing feedback signatures on a second screen device to convey occurrences of events in connection with a video game" was invented by James Smith (Los Gatos, Calif.), Olivier Jean Poitrey (Le Chesnay, France) and Chase Rubin Meusel (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented methods and systems can generate and implement feedback signatures including feedback signals that can convey-on a display screen device-the occurrence of a particular event relative to a video game. For example, the disclosed...