AI & Machine Learning Gaming Patents

Published: Jul 21, 2026 Granted

EA's AI Voice Tech Could Reshape How NPC Dialogue Gets Made

Electronic Arts was granted patent 12682886 on July 14, 2026, covering a one-stage text-to-speech system that generates emotionally expressive NPC speech by combining text content with separately cont...

Published: Jul 9, 2026 Filed

Unity's Bet to Fix Mobile Ads Without Tracking You

Unity Technologies filed a patent on December 31, 2025 describing a system that runs machine learning user profiling directly inside the game engine runtime on a player's device. Rather than shipping ...

Published: Jun 25, 2026 Filed

Microsoft Files Patent to Build Photorealistic Avatars From a Single Photo

Microsoft has filed a patent for a Gaussian splatting-based avatar system that uses a deep neural network prior model to generate photorealistic, real-time 3D human avatars from minimal input data. Th...

Published: Jun 23, 2026 Granted

Sony Patents AI That Learns From Player Reactions in Real Time

Sony Interactive Entertainment was granted US Patent 12654096 on June 16, 2026, covering a system that uses human player feedback to train AI-controlled virtual players in real time. The core mechanis...

Published: Jun 18, 2026 Filed

Lemon Inc. Files Patent to Turn Chat into Playable Games

Lemon Inc. filed a patent in December 2024 describing a system that lets anyone build a playable game simply by chatting with an AI. The architecture pairs a language model agent that converts natural...

Published: Jun 4, 2026 Filed

Truist Bank Patents AI That Ties Your Bank Account to Game Retention

Truist Bank filed a patent in January 2026 describing an AI-driven player re-engagement system that fuses in-game behavioral data with real-world financial and resource transaction data to predict whe...

Published: May 21, 2026 Filed

Sony Wants Stadiums to Play Games With the Crowd's Bodies

Sony Interactive Entertainment filed a patent in October 2024 describing a system that uses computer vision and machine learning to capture crowd movements in stadiums and arenas, translating collecti...

Published: May 19, 2026 Granted

Kawasaki Patents Using Gamers to Control Factory Robots

Kawasaki Heavy Industries was granted US Patent 12623338 on May 12, 2026, covering a system that uses standard game controllers and game terminals to control industrial robots through an AI-powered me...

Published: Apr 30, 2026 Filed

Sony Wants NPCs to Deliver Your Real-World Notifications

Sony Interactive Entertainment filed a patent in October 2024, published on the USPTO on April 23, 2026, describing a dual-AI system that intercepts real-world communications such as texts, emails, an...

Published: Apr 16, 2026 Filed

Sony Wants AI Teammates That Actually Know When to Shut Up

Sony Interactive Entertainment filed a patent in October 2024 that describes an AI system capable of training NPC dialogue directly from real player conversations in cooperative games, then deploying ...

Published: Apr 9, 2026 Filed

EA Patents AI Game Narrator for Blind Players

Electronic Arts has filed a patent for an AI-powered gameplay assistant that generates real-time audio descriptions of game events for visually impaired players. Instead of relying on screen readers t...

Published: Apr 7, 2026 Granted

Sony's Biometric Gaming Patent: Games That Read Your Heart Rate

Sony's newly granted patent integrates biometric sensors into the gaming experience, capturing player heart rate and stress levels to both enhance spectator viewing and dynamically adjust NPC behavior...

Published: Mar 17, 2026 Granted

Sony Patents AI Gesture Translation for Multiplayer Chat

Sony Interactive Entertainment has secured a patent for AI-powered gesture recognition that translates sign language and physical gestures into context-aware in-game chat messages for multiplayer game...

Published: Mar 12, 2026 Filed

Triumph Labs Patents Adaptive Matchmaking for Dying Games

Triumph Labs filed a patent in August 2025 for an adaptive matchmaking system that uses machine learning to dynamically select the best skill metric for pairing players, then intelligently adjusts mat...

Published: Mar 10, 2026 Granted

Sony Patents AI That Predicts Hit Game Trailers

Sony Interactive Entertainment has secured a patent for an AI system that predicts how engaging game trailers and promotional videos will be before they're released to the public. The technology train...

Published: Feb 24, 2026 Granted

OVOMIND Patents AI That Predicts Player Emotions Before Playtesting

OVOMIND SA has secured a patent for an AI system that predicts player emotional responses by analyzing gameplay audio/video through neural networks and correlating it with biosignal data (arousal and ...

Published: Feb 19, 2026 Filed

Nvidia Files Patent for GPU-Level Chat Censorship

Nvidia has filed a patent for a real-time AI-powered censorship system that detects and visually modifies abusive text in gaming chat, live streams, and social platforms as players communicate. The te...

Published: Feb 10, 2026 Granted

Sony Patents AI Streamers That Learn From Your Reactions

Sony Interactive Entertainment has secured a patent for AI-powered streamers that adjust their gameplay in real-time based on viewer reactions, effectively creating autonomous gaming content creators....

Published: Feb 5, 2026 Filed

Sony's AI Patent: Crowd-Sourced Video Highlights for Game Coaches

Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed a patent for an AI-powered system that converts gameplay video into 3D volumetric representations, allowing coaches and streamers to overlay hand-drawn annotat...

Published: Feb 4, 2026 Granted

GNA Patents Player Clustering as Ad Targeting Costs Explode

GNA Company Corp's patent, granted on January 20, 2026, describes a machine learning system that clusters game players based on behavioral patterns rather than demographics, enabling precision-targete...

Published: Jan 29, 2026 Filed

Sony Patents AI Podcasts Voiced by Your Favorite Game Characters

Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed a patent for an AI-powered system that generates personalized gaming news podcasts delivered in the voices of video game characters players already know and lo...

Published: Jan 27, 2026 Granted

COLOPL Patents Live Actors Controlling Game NPCs in Real-Time

COLOPL's newly granted patent describes a system where game NPCs transition from scripted AI behavior to real-time, human-operated responses during critical story moments. The core innovation isn't ge...

Published: Jan 15, 2026 Filed

ACCO Brands Files AI Controller Patent Against Razer, Logitech

ACCO Brands, best known for office supplies like Swingline staplers and Kensington computer accessories, has filed a patent for an AI-powered game controller that integrates a virtual assistant direct...

Published: Jan 6, 2026 Granted

EA Patents Storage-Efficient System for Authentic Player Animations

EA's motion-inferred player characteristics patent, granted December 30, 2025, tackles a fundamental challenge in sports gaming: making virtual athletes move like their real-world counterparts without...

Published: Dec 29, 2025 Filed

Adeia Files Patent to Tax Netflix-Gaming Integration

Adeia Guides Inc., a media technology licensing firm, filed a patent in June 2024 describing a system that automatically syncs what players watch on streaming platforms with what appears in their game...

Published: Dec 11, 2025 Filed

Sony Patents 3D Gameplay Capture Technology

Sony has filed a patent for technology that converts standard 2D gameplay screenshots and video clips into interactive 3D models that players can rotate, zoom, and explore from any angle. The system u...

Published: Nov 27, 2025 Filed

QOMPLX's Motion Platform Patent Targets Racing Sim's Biggest Problem

QOMPLX LLC filed this patent in May 2024 for an AI-driven simulation system that collects real-world telematics data from actual vehicles and operators to create hyper-realistic gaming and training ex...

Published: Nov 20, 2025 Filed

Snap's AI Game Engine Learns Sports by Watching Real Footage

Snap has filed a patent for a learnable game engine that trains neural networks on real-world sports video footage to generate playable game environments controlled by natural language commands. Inste...

Published: Oct 20, 2025 Granted

Sony's AI Patent: Your Gaming History Becomes Unique Cosmetics

Sony Interactive Entertainment's newly granted patent (September 2025) describes an AI system that generates personalized 3D game items in under two minutes by analyzing player data and converting it ...

Published: Sep 30, 2025 Granted

NVIDIA Patents AI That Coaches Gamers Like a Pro

NVIDIA's recently granted patent (September 2025) describes an AI coaching system that learns from professional gamers and delivers personalized training to players of all skill levels. The technology...

Published: Sep 23, 2025 Filed

EA Patents AI Matchmaking That Predicts Player Retention

Electronic Arts has filed a patent for an AI-powered matchmaking system that predicts whether individual players will stay engaged in specific match scenarios before placing them into games. The techn...

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