US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on March 11 for "Server-based generation of a help map in a video game" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,253, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Server-based generation of a help map in a video game" was invented by Adil Ahmed Sherwani (Oakland, Calif.), Mischa G. Stephens (San Francisco), Karthik Anandh Govindaraj (Fremont, Calif.), 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 graphical user interface are described. In an example, a computer system receives an activity identifier of an activity in a video game and correlated locations. It bu...