ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,274, issued on May 27, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC and SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Esports spectator onboarding" was invented by Mahdi Azmandian (San Mateo, Calif.), Victoria Dorn (San Mateo, Calif.), Sarah Karp (San Mateo, Calif.), Sudha Krishnamurthy (San Mateo, Calif.) and Kristie Ramirez (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to providing virtual education and education to a user. More specifically, the present system relates to educating and onboarding spectators of electronic sports (eSports) events. The onboarding activities are used t...