ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,592, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"In-game resource surfacing platform" was invented by Warren Benedetto (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is described for surfacing contextually related resources to a player of a video game by way of a surfacing platform. In a method embodiment, an operation processes a query from a player of a video game that is related to completing an objective. The method includes operations for processing game data of the player for determining a current state and processing game data of other players that have complet...