Sony Interactive Entertainment America: version 2
Saved 2026-09-23 03:28 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled both queue items. absence_prose: removed the second About paragraph ("This page exists because… no page of its own here yet") and replaced it with a sourced sentence on where the business went. owner_unknown: added parent_org company/sony-group-corporation (2016-03-31 to 2018-03-15, verified, Sony's own FY2016 Form 20-F listing SIEA LLC as a significant subsidiary owned directly or indirectly) and a merged_into relation row to company/sony-interactive-entertainment (15 March 2018, USPTO reel 053323/0567), plus Identity dissolved 2018-03-15. The direct registered owner of SIEA LLC in 2016–2018 is not stated by any source reached (Sony's January 2016 press release is not archived; GLEIF has no record for SIEA), so no owned_by row was added for this company; the 20-F group-level row answers who owned it. Created stub company/sony-interactive-entertainment (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC; owned_by Sony Corporation of America per Wikipedia, parent_org Sony Group per the 20-F, LEI and legal address from GLEIF); its founded date is left blank because GLEIF gives an entity creation date of 2010-12-04 (probably the SNEI LLC lineage) while Sony and Wikipedia date the company to April 2016. References added: sony-20f-2017 (main and stub), gleif-sie (stub); wiki-sie and uspto-912 re-accessed.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Sony Interactive Entertainment America <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Interactive Entertainment America
summary: The name Sony Computer Entertainment America took in March 2016; the PlayStation company for the Americas until it was merged into Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC in 2018.
legal_name: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
country: US
dissolved: 2018-03-15
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | ----- | -------- | -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| parent_org | company/sony-group-corporation | | 2016-03-31 | 2018-03-15 | | verified | ^sony-20f-2017 | Sony Corporation's Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2017 lists Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC among the significant subsidiaries it owns directly or indirectly; that Sony Corporation is today Sony Group Corporation. |
| merged_into | company/sony-interactive-entertainment | | 2018-03-15 | | | sourced | ^uspto-912 | USPTO assignment records carry the merger of Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC into Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, effective 15 March 2018, reel 053323/0567. |
| renamed_from | company/sony-computer-entertainment-america | | 2016-03-31 | | | sourced | ^uspto-912 | USPTO assignment records carry the change of name from Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC, effective 31 March 2016, reel 038626/0637. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| SIEA | search | | | |
| Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC | legal | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| uspto-912 | https://patents.google.com/patent/US9295912B2/en | Google Patents US9295912B2 (Game aim assist): USPTO assignment records for Sony Computer Entertainment America | 2026-09-23 | Google Patents, from USPTO assignment records | registry | | US9295912B2 | Legal Events: reels 033465/0919, 038626/0637 and 053323/0567 | | | |
| wiki-sie | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Interactive_Entertainment | Wikipedia: Sony Interactive Entertainment | 2026-09-23 | Wikipedia | publication | | | History, 2016 restructuring; corporate affairs | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| sony-20f-2017 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313838/000119312517203939/d358485d20f.htm | Sony Corporation, Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017 | 2026-09-23 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | | 0001193125-17-203939 | Item 4.C, Organizational Structure | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC was the PlayStation company for the Americas, and is the name Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC took on 31 March 2016, when Sony reorganised its games and network businesses as Sony Interactive Entertainment. United States patent assignment records carry that change of name with its effective date, and then the merger of Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC into Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC with effect from 15 March 2018.[^uspto-912] Sony Corporation's annual report on Form 20-F for the year to 31 March 2017 lists it, beside Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, among the significant subsidiaries Sony owned directly or indirectly.[^sony-20f-2017] Wikipedia lists both companies at San Mateo, California, as the group's global and regional headquarters for the Americas, and dates the reorganisation to 1 April 2016.[^wiki-sie]
Its business passed in the 2018 merger to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC of San Mateo, the PlayStation company Sony formed in April 2016 by combining Sony Computer Entertainment with Sony Network Entertainment International.[^uspto-912][^wiki-sie]
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