ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,948, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Help system via hand held controller" was invented by Warren Benedetto (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Landon Noss (San Mateo, Calif.), Tom Srisook (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Andrew Herman (Lake Forest, Calif.), Chad Rolinski (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Parsa Shirazi (Long Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for gaming assistance. Information related to a plurality of game plays of players for a gaming application is received over a network at a back-end server. A query is received from a first player playing the gaming...