US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Oct. 7 for "Automated tracking of earned in-game actions for granting an NFT backed digital asset" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,153, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.

"Automated tracking of earned in-game actions for granting an NFT backed digital asset" was invented by Warren Benedetto (San Mateo, Calif.), Matthew Tomczek (San Mateo, Calif.) and Steven Trombetta (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for tracking a game asset used in a video game includes receiving game inputs provided by a player during gameplay of the video game. The game inputs are analyzed to determine when the game inputs result in the occurrence of a significant event in the video game. A digital asset is awarded to the ...