ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,442, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Methods and systems for assistive chat interactivity" was invented by Olga Rudi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for rendering assistive chat during play of a video game. An example method includes tracking a gaze of a first player interacting with a scene of an environment of the video game. The method includes identifying a gaze focus of the first player. The gaze focus is toward a character in the scene. The character is associated with a second player. The method includes processing state data of the...