ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,928, issued on July 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Game cheat detection from mouse lifting" was invented by Josef Spjut (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product for mouse lift cheat detection are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving mouse movement data from a mouse device and determining if a distance represented by the mouse movement data can be performed by a human. When the distance cannot be performed by a human, the method further includes determining if a mouse lift pattern exists. When the mouse lift pattern exists, the method fu...