ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,256, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC (San Mateo, Calif.) and SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Intelligent reporting within online communities" was invented by Brielle Powell (San Mateo, Calif.), Celeste Bean (San Mateo, Calif.), Victoria Walker (San Mateo, Calif.), Olga Rudi (San Mateo, Calif.) and Steven Osman (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of intelligent reporting within online communities are provided. A current communication session associated with a plurality of user device may be monitored. The current communication session may include a s...