US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Dec. 9 for "Virtual assistant for game discovery" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,436, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Virtual assistant for game discovery" was invented by Chen Yao (Bloomingdale, Ill.), Jun Murakawa (Foster City, Calif.), Sagnik Chowdhury (San Jose, Calif.), Ratnakar Pawar (Redwood City, Calif.) and Robert Brown (Lafayette, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for providing a specialized agent comprising an application and a virtual assistant are disclosed. The virtual assistant includes a neural network trained with a machine learning algorithm to emulate a communication style of a chara...