ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,315, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Building a dynamic social community based on similar interaction regions of game plays of a gaming application" was invented by Warren Benedetto (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) and Landon Noss (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for gaming including receiving game states of game plays of players playing a gaming application. The method includes tracking game play progression for each of the game plays based on game states, wherein game play progression is defined by a corresponding set of relationship characteristics. A fir...