US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Aug. 5 for "Using gaze tracking to effect player choices in multi player interactive narratives" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,779, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Using gaze tracking to effect player choices in multi player interactive narratives" was invented by Warren Benedetto (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to controlling outcomes in a game that includes multiple different users playing respective roles of specific virtual characters. The multiple different users may be present at a same physical location, or the different users may be located at different physical locations when movement of their eyes is tracked. Here, a user may choose one of a set of...