US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Dec. 16 for "Method for personalizing a video game trophy" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,529, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Method for personalizing a video game trophy" was invented by Chen Yao (Bloomingdale, Ill.), Nobuyuki Nakamura (Yokohama, Japan), Sagnik Chowdhury (San Jose, Calif.), Ratnakar Pawar (Redwood City, Calif.), Robert Brown (Lafayette, Calif.) and Jun Murakawa (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a method for enhancing a video game trophy, including detecting an end game state to a video game corresponding to award of a trophy. Embodiments may also include extracting metadata relating to a...