ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,627, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Indirect video game context determination based on game I/O" was invented by Rathish Krishnan (Los Gatos, Calif.), Chockalingam Ravi Sundaram (Belmont, Calif.), Charlie Denison (San Mateo, Calif.), Ryder McMinn (San Francisco), Orlando Cardoso (San Diego), Warren Benedetto (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) and Vinit Acharya (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating gameplay context information for a game may include a game screen classification module trained to classify contextually relevant data from gameplay data, one or mor...