US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on May 20 for "Assigning non-fungible token (NFT) to creative in-game concept asset designs" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,530, issued on May 20, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Assigning non-fungible token (NFT) to creative in-game concept asset designs" was invented by Yiwei Yang (San Mateo, Calif.), Matt Tomczek (San Mateo, Calif.) and Andrew Ahn (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for receiving a virtual asset designed by a user, rendering the virtual asset in a virtual marketplace and allow other users to provide feedback. The feedbacks from the other users are evaluated to compute a value for the virtual asset. Based on the value, access to the virtual asset is provided to...