US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on June 17 for "Spectator participation in esports events" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,070, issued on June 17, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC (San Mateo, Calif.) and SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Spectator participation in esports events" was invented by Celeste Bean (San Mateo, Calif.), Alessandra Luizello (San Mateo, Calif.), Genie-Rose Luluquisin (San Mateo, Calif.), Benaisha Patel (San Mateo, Calif.) and Olga Rudi (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides solutions for spectator-based interactions in a virtual esports environment. A method can include establishing an interactive session associated with the virtual esports environment, the i...