ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,442, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Beginning scan-out process at flip-time for cloud gaming applications" was invented by Roelof Roderick Colenbrander (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Mark E. Cerny (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cloud gaming. The method including generating a video frame when executing a video game at a server. The method including performing a scan-out process by scanning the video frame scanline-by-scanline and one or more user interface features scanline-by-scanline to one or more input frame buffers, and compositing and blending the video frame ...