US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment on Oct. 21 for "Reporting and crowd-sourced review whether game activity is appropriate for user" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,409, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.) and Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Reporting and crowd-sourced review whether game activity is appropriate for user" was invented by Steven Osman (San Francisco) and Celeste Bean (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed for evaluating activity in a video game, including: executing a multi-player session of a video game; during the multi-player session, receiving flag event data from a first player device, the flag event data indicating that a first player has flagged a gameplay incident occurring durin...