ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,911, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Gamified annotations during livestream" was invented by Chen Yao (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Non-players can vote and comment on uploaded video clips or livestreams of video games played by video game players. The video game players that upload the clips or do the livestreaming and that then receive the most votes can be awarded digital awards. The non-players providing the best comments can also be awarded digital awards. This incentivizes these behaviors, providing ample training data in the process so that the vot...