US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Nov. 4 for "Multiplayer video game systems and methods" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,893, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Multiplayer video game systems and methods" was invented by Christopher William Henderson (London), David Erwan Damien Uberti (London) and Michael Richard Reynolds (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of executing a multiplayer video game includes: connecting a game client to a game server via a communication network; for each player, executing an instance of a game on the game server to generate a game environment; synchronizing game data between multiple instances of the game to link the generated game environments; tr...