US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on July 29 for "User options in modifying face of computer simulation character" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,454, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"User options in modifying face of computer simulation character" was invented by Ken Yoshihiko Hirakawa (San Mateo, Calif.), Keisuke Saito (San Mateo, Calif.), Daniel Morales (San Mateo, Calif.), Dilip Krishnamoorthi (San Mateo, Calif.), Keith D. Brown (San Mateo, Calif.) and Takuya Kawasaki (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique presents on a display a computer game character and a first scannable code (SC) scannable by a camera of at least a first user apparatus to cause a server to download to the first user apparatus a pho...