ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,838, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Game event recognition for user generated content" was invented by Suresh Yerva (Beglauru, India) and Stephen Holmes (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated detection of events in content can be performed using regions of information associated with various user interface or display elements. Certain elements can be indicative of a type of event, and regions associated with these elements can be analyzed on a per-frame basis. If one of these primary regions shows a state or transition that is indicative of one of these events, one or mo...