US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Jan. 20 for "Player selection system and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,019, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Player selection system and method" was invented by Philip Cockram (London), Christopher William Henderson (London), Michael Eder (London) and Daniele Bernabei (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game selection system includes an emotion processor configured to obtain a current emotional state of a user; a descriptor processor configured to obtain one or more emotion descriptors associated with one or more games; an evaluation processor configured to predict an emotion outcome for the user for the or each game, based upon the user's current emo...