US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 2 for "Data processing apparatus and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,032, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Data processing apparatus and method" was invented by Hogarth Andall (London), Danjeli Schembri (London) and Bee Lay Tan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: receive a first signal indicative of one or more words communicated from a first user of online content to one or more second users of online content; classify the one or more words using the first signal; receive one or more second signals indicative of one or more physiological characteristics of the one or more second users in r...