ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,235, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Button sequence mapping based on game state" was invented by Michael Taylor (San Mateo, Calif.), Yasunori Matsui (San Mateo, Calif.), Yurika Kondo (Tokyo) and Mihee Kang (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning-based model is configured to make inferences about computer game actions to execute based on dynamic, varying player gestures and to translate those game actions into input sequence macros. In some instances, the button sequence mapping for the macros can even dynamically change based on game state so that different macros for...