ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,910, issued on March 24, was assigned to BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Computer system, game system, and game progress control method" was invented by Daisuke Kano (Tokyo), Shota Kuniyoshi (Tokyo), Mizuki Kato (Tokyo) and Yuji Koyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system determines that a player character is in a preparatory state for executing an external function (close-range attack) toward a target character (e.g., enemy character). Furthermore, the computer system determines that the player character satisfies an executable condition that enables execution of the external function. When the player c...