ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,502, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.
"Embedded speedrun timer" was invented by Nathan Allen Stolp (San Diego), Romie John Quinto (Escondido, Calif.) and Ritchard Markelz (Temecula, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing a speedrun timer on a platform, including: initiating a speedrun on the platform by a player using an option in settings of the platform; selecting at least one of installed imports of rulesets and default imports of rulesets; selecting at least one of installed rules and default rules; downloading one of the at least one of selected imports of rulesets or the at least o...