ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,315, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Valve Corp. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for dynamically determining event content items" was invented by Adil Sardar (Seattle) and Alden Kroll (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There may be large numbers of content items available at current content provider systems. Subsets of these content items may be eligible to participate in events, such as sales. A content provider system may determine content item eligibility for events using content item data and proactively query vendor systems for participation in such events. The content provider system may iteratively query vendor s...