US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 23 for "Marker in a message providing access to a full version of a video game" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,207, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Marker in a message providing access to a full version of a video game" was invented by Warren Benedetto (San Mateo, Calif.), Landon Noss (San Mateo, Calif.), Adil Sherwani (San Mateo, Calif.), Akihiko Kusumoto (San Mateo, Calif.), Nicole Hayashida (San Mateo, Calif.) and Justin Lancaster (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for gaming interaction. The method including capturing a plurality of snapshots generated from a gaming application executed for a first user. The method including generating a user defined pac...