A newly revealed patent means that Sony NFT and blockchain implementation might be within the works. Titled “Monitoring Distinctive In-Sport Digital Belongings Utilizing Tokens on a Distributed Ledger,” this patent by Sony Interactive Leisure was submitted on Might 7, 2021, however was solely printed this week on November 10, 2022.
Patent summary just about defines blockchain expertise
The summary of the patent makes it clear that it’s meant to be “a system and methodology for monitoring digital belongings related to video video games.” Moreover, it reads:
The digital belongings could also be in-game digital belongings, similar to in-game gadgets or characters. The digital belongings could also be online game digital media belongings representing moments of gameplay of a online game, similar to video clips or pictures. The digital asset is created, and a distributed ledger monitoring a historical past of the digital asset is created and saved throughout gadgets. A singular token for the digital asset can embody a singular identifier and metadata figuring out properties of the digital asset.
Properly, if that doesn’t sound precisely like blockchain expertise, I’m undecided what does. The summary goes even additional to explain how new blocks could be generated or appended to a distributed ledger.
That stated, it must be famous that the Might 2021 submission date for this patent was in the course of the midst of the NFT craze. The viewers response to NFTs has shifted rather a lot since then. Sony needed to clarify that the PlayStation Stars digital collectibles are positively not NFTs in July this yr, whereas being criticized for together with a query about PlayStations NFTs in a survey at EVO. So if Sony NFTs are certainly in growth, let’s hope that the corporate navigates this very rigorously.