ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,586, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Server-based mechanics help determination from aggregated user data" was invented by Adil Ahmed Sherwani (Oakland, Calif.), Mischa G. Stephens (San Francisco), Xiaohan Zhang (Albany, Calif.), Jay Robert Franck (San Francisco), Nitin Y. Mohan (San Francisco), Oscar Michael Sanchez (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Derek Andrew Parker (South San Francisco, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving a user video game experience are described. In an example, a computer system receives event data from a plurality of user devices. Each...