ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,754, issued on May 6, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Automated artificial intelligence (AI) personal assistant" was invented by Steven Osman (San Francisco), Jeffrey R. Stafford (Redwood City, Calif.), Javier F. Rico (Pacifica, Calif.), Michael G. Taylor (San Mateo, Calif.) and Todd S. Tokubo (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting game play. The method includes monitoring game play of the user playing a gaming application, wherein the user has a defined task to accomplish, wherein the task is associated with a task type. The method includes determining a task type proficie...