US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on April 15 for "Using neural network to classify relationship for secure lending of digital content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,197, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Using neural network to classify relationship for secure lending of digital content" was invented by David Haydon (San Diego), Monica Dabaghi (San Diego), Urson Urbanik (San Diego), Cullen Coughlin (San Diego) and Yun Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a server configured to operate on a network, secured access to shared digital content may be implemented by analyzing information about a first user and a second user with a neural network trained with a machine learning algorithm to determine a relationship between the first and second...