Patents Examined by Michael A Cuff
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Patent number: 12773640Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for watching a game after a character is eliminated, and an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: displaying, in the graphical user interface of the terminal device, a game watching screen identical to a target game screen of a target virtual character being watched, after a virtual character corresponding to the terminal device is eliminated; adjusting the game watching screen in response to an adjustment operation on a viewing angle of the game watching screen; and restoring the game watching screen to be consistent with the target game screen of the target virtual character in response to a disappearance of the adjustment operation on the viewing angle.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: October 27, 2026Assignee: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.Inventor: Haoqi Miao
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Patent number: 12776192Abstract: Lottery tickets and lottery gaming systems and methods providing such lottery tickets, wherein the lottery tickets each have a connected symbol set feature including a plurality of connected symbol sets, a plurality of player symbols, and potential awards that can be won based on the connected symbol sets and the player symbols.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2024Date of Patent: October 27, 2026Assignee: Brightstar Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Amy Morin, Patricia Schmidt, Derek Levesque, Xianfeng Shang, Sandra Carpenter
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Patent number: 12770473Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that track quantities of one or more tracked symbols that are part of winning symbol combinations in one or more plays of a game, and trigger one or more additional symbol evaluations responsive to one or more of the tracked quantities of such tracked symbols reaching one or more threshold quantities.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2024Date of Patent: October 20, 2026Assignee: IGTInventor: Chris Peterson
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Patent number: 12766402Abstract: Disclosed is a key travel adjustable switch, including a microswitch pin, a switch cap connected to the microswitch pin, a switch cap silicone arranged between the switch cap and the microswitch pin, a switch body, and a rotary ring rotatably connected to the switch body and having a plurality of travel adjusting portions of different heights arranged at a lower edge of the rotary ring. The plurality of travel adjusting portions structurally matches with a travel positioning portion arranged on the switch cap, and the rotary ring is rotatable to position the travel positioning portion at different travel adjusting portions to adjust the key travel of the key travel adjustable switch, so as to adjust the respond speed of the key travel adjustable switch, and thus improve the experience feeling of a user.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2024Date of Patent: October 20, 2026Assignee: QANBA USA, LLCInventors: Kai Liu, Jeffrey Lyo
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Patent number: 12766420Abstract: A collusion detection system may detect collusion between entities participating in online gaming. The collusion detection system may identify a plurality of entities associated with and opponents within an instance of an online game, determine social data associated with the plurality of entities, determine in-game behavior data associated with the plurality of entities, and determine, for one or more pairings of the plurality of entities, respective pairwise feature sets based at least in part on the social data and the in-game behavior data. The collusion detection system may then perform anomaly detection on the respective pairwise feature sets and, in response to the anomaly detection detecting one or more anomalous pairwise feature sets, output one or more suspect pairings of the plurality of entities corresponding to the one or more anomalous pairwise feature sets as suspected colluding pairings.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2024Date of Patent: October 20, 2026Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.Inventors: Laura Greige, Meredith Trotter, Sundeep Narravula, Navid Aghdaie, Fernando de Mesentier Silva
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Patent number: 12758876Abstract: The present technology allows state information associated with a player to be saved at a first time and restored at a second time. The state information can pertain to attributes of the player such as stats associated with the player in a particular environment or collection of environments, can pertain to attributes of an avatar such as a current outfit or skin worn by the avatar, current settings for an avatar, adornments or objects possessed by an avatar, etc. The state information can also pertain to attributes of a virtual world as interacted with by the player such as the location of objects or characteristics of objects that the player may have previously interacted with.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: October 13, 2026Assignee: VRCHAT INC.Inventors: Daniel James Leslie, Neil Kandalgaonkar, Jesse Joudrey
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Patent number: 12758883Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a training method of a model, a game confrontation player matching method, a medium, and a device. The training method of the advantage prediction model includes: acquiring an advantage value of each confrontation among a plurality of confrontations within a preset historical period and historical confrontation positive performance sample data of both game players before each confrontation; and training a first preset initial model by taking the advantage value of each confrontation among the plurality of confrontations and the historical confrontation positive performance sample data of both game players before each confrontation as first training data, so as to obtain the advantage prediction model.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2023Date of Patent: October 13, 2026Assignee: Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hanye Li
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Patent number: 12758882Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment includes: a scaling server configured to execute a first event occurring in a first region allocated a plurality of cells, at least one game server configured to execute a second event occurring in at least one second region adjacent to the first region, and at least one processor configured to process the scaling server and the at least one game server. The at least one processor configured to control at least one of the scaling server or the at least one game server so that at least one cell is transferred between the first region and the second region, based on a first load by the first event and a second load by the second event.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2023Date of Patent: October 13, 2026Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jeongsik In
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Patent number: 12758879Abstract: This disclosure relates to adjusting individualized content made available to users of an online game based on user gameplay information. In implementations, information relating to prospective usage of the online game is used to classify users according by user type, and content made available to the users is customized accordingly. Information relating to prospective usage may include predictive information such as demographic and geographic information, as well as game usage information for the users. User types may include resource collection, player versus player, and player versus environment. Customized content may include content made available to the users through the users in-game actions, such as exploring a map, researching a technology or skill, purchasing an in-game item, and completing an in-game achievement, including in-game items, in-game powers, in-game skills, in-game technologies, in-game pets, in-game transportation units, in-game units, and in-game buildings.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2024Date of Patent: October 13, 2026Assignee: Kabam, Inc.Inventors: Kent Wakeford, Clifford J. Harrington, Matthew Curtis, James Koh, Kellen Christopher Smalley, Michael C. Caldarone
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Patent number: 12734447Abstract: This application discloses a method for obtaining a virtual character performed by an electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2024Date of Patent: September 15, 2026Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Yuyan Jin, Tengju He
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Patent number: 12737580Abstract: An inspection system comprises: a placing surface having a plurality of areas for placing a plurality of gaming chips to be inspected one by one; an RFID reading system that reads the RFID tags of the gaming chips placed in each of the plurality of areas on the surface to obtain the type information and identification information for each of the areas; a chip recognition system that recognizes the presence or absence of at least one of the gaming chips placed in each of the plurality of areas of the placing surface; a control device that determines a status of the gaming chip in each of the areas of the placing surface based on the type and identification information obtained by the RFID reading system and the recognition results of the chip recognition system; and a display device that reflects the status determined by the control device for each area.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: September 15, 2026Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 12728346Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a game joystick, including a control grip, a gimbal, and a throttle base; a throttle assembly is arranged in the throttle base; an upper end of the gimbal is connected to the control grip; a lower end of the gimbal is connected to the throttle assembly; the control grip is pushed with a hand forwards, backwards, leftwards, or rightwards, so that the control grip can tilts forwards, backwards, leftwards, and rightwards relative to the throttle base. According to the present disclosure, through the gimbal arranged in the control grip, a spacecraft in a game can be controlled to do micro and precise motions upwards, downwards, leftwards, and rightwards with the hand and the forearm without changing throttle control position.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2024Date of Patent: September 8, 2026Assignee: HUIZHOU VKB TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTDInventor: Ilya Yurgulski
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Patent number: 12722084Abstract: A game control method is provided. The method comprises: acquiring the distance between a game character and a shielding face, and an included angle between the orientation of the game character and a vertical line of the shielding face; displaying a bunker-entering control on a graphical user interface when the distance is smaller than or equal to a first preset distance and the included angle is smaller than or equal to a preset included angle; and in response to a selection operation for the bunker-entering control, controlling the game character to move to a shielding area corresponding to the shielding face, such that a bunker shields the game character.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Assignee: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiao Wu, Kui Jin
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Patent number: 12725485Abstract: In some embodiments, in a system comprising a wagering game machine, the wagering gaming machine including a digital camera and a barcode recognition unit, a method includes: detecting, by the digital camera, a barcode within a field of view of the digital camera and capturing a picture of the barcode; via the barcode recognition unit, decoding the barcode to produce decoded barcode data; in response to the decoded barcode data representing a desired casino wagering game, determining whether the desired casino wagering game is installed on the wagering game machine; and, if the desired casino wagering game is installed on the wagering game machine, loading, initiating and presenting the desired casino wagering game on an electronic display device of the wagering game machine.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2024Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Assignee: LNW Gaming, Inc.Inventors: Mark B. Gagner, Damon E. Gura, Timothy C. Loose, James M. Rasmussen, Victor T. Shi, Alfred Thomas
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Patent number: 12673260Abstract: The creative process to generate 3D content is made significantly smoother through quick iteration between 2D artwork and 3D objects. Generative AI is leveraged to create both 2D artwork and corresponding 3D objects. Placement of 3D objects within a 3D environment is based on the positions of each object in a 2D editing frame. Modifications may be made to objects in either the 2D editing frame or in the 3D environment, and each is updated in response to such modifications.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2024Date of Patent: July 7, 2026Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.Inventors: Petter Wannerberg, Mathew Adams
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Patent number: 12667788Abstract: A method in a computing system to facilitate a multi-player game by selecting a group of computing devices operated by respective users, distributing interactive content that includes one or more questions with a set of selectable answers to the group of computing devices, receiving a response to the one or more questions, determining a score based on whether the response is a correct response and a number of computing devices in the group from which the correct response was received, determining a respective ranking based at least on the corresponding score, and providing the respective ranking to each computing device in the group.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 30, 2026Inventors: Ray Latypov, Nurali Latypov, Alfred Latypov
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Patent number: 12664910Abstract: According to a first aspect of the invention there is provided a motion generator comprising an effector for applying forces, moments and movements to an effector pay load relative to a surface connected to one or more elongate rigid struts, each strut being connected at one end thereof by a first joint to the effector and being connected at its other end by a second joint to an associated rocker, the rocker comprising a rocker arm and having a pivot axis which is generally parallel with the surface, such that the movement of the rocker arm through a generally vertical are about the pivot axis leads to movement of the effector, and forces applied to an associated rocker lead to forces being applied to the effector, in which the movement of a rocker and forces applied by the rocker are controlled by an actuator, the actuator being in the form of, or comprising an elongate belt, cable, or rope drive which is connected by either end thereof to an associated rocker to apply a force to a point on the associated roType: GrantFiled: May 30, 2022Date of Patent: June 23, 2026Assignee: Dynisma Ltd.Inventors: Ashley William Hawker Warne, Daniel Charmbury Ward, James Golding
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Patent number: 12654109Abstract: A somatosensory game method and device, and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: when a somatosensory game program is started, caching a game resource package from a server to a local device; after a somatosensory game is started, obtaining somatosensory data from a smart watch; generating a corresponding game instruction according to the somatosensory data; sending the game instruction to the somatosensory game program on the local device in real time; and synchronizing a game state of the somatosensory game to the server based on a preset synchronization mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2023Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: Shenzhen Shimi Network Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wei Zhu, Jun Li
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Patent number: 12636583Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for translating a game, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method include: establishing, by a proxy server, a communication connection between a client and a game server through the proxy server, wherein the proxy server communicates with the game server for the game; receiving, by the proxy server, game data from the game server, where the game data is sent by the game server in response to an active request or actively pushed by the game server; determining, by the proxy server, language resource data contained in the game data; and translating, by the proxy server, the language resource data according to a predetermined automation service, and returning translated language resource data to the client, so that the client loads the translated language resource data.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.Inventor: Wanghong Lin
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Patent number: 12636577Abstract: An electronic apparatus including a communication interface; a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to control a display to display content received from a server through the communication interface, obtain a control signal corresponding to a user input for controlling the content displayed, transmit the obtained control signal to the server through the communication interface; obtain an image output control signal corresponding to the obtained control signal while transmitting the obtained control signal to the server, process the content displayed based on the obtained image output control signal, control the display to display the content that was processed based on the obtained image output control signal while awaiting content processed by the server based on the transmitted obtained control signal, receive the content processed by the server, and control the display to display the received content processed by the server.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Bonggil Bak