US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on May 13 for "Compositing multiple video streams into a single media stream" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,257, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Compositing multiple video streams into a single media stream" was invented by Timothy Cotter (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are described for combining multiple views of a video game or application into a single video stream (or set of video streams). For example, a system according to one embodiment comprises: a plurality of application/video game instances executed for a particular multi-player video game or application on a hosting service, the application/video game instances being executed in re...