ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,233, issued on June 24, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Bifurcation of gameplay between mobile and non-mobile play with intelligent game state saving, and startups" was invented by Warren M Benedetto (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Alvin Daniel (San Mateo, Calif.), Daniel Hiatt (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jon Webb (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for streaming gameplay to user devices from a cloud gaming system. The cloud gaming system includes a server. The method includes identifying, by the server, a device of a user for playing a game. The method includes ident...