ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,137, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Dynamic in-game refinement of calibration of user input" was invented by Todd Tokubo (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for refining calibration of a user input for a video game, including: performing an initial calibration process for a user input for the video game, wherein the initial calibration process determines calibration settings for the user input; initiating gameplay of the video game using the calibration settings determined from the initial calibration, such that the calibration settings are applied to ...