ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,755, issued on July 21, was assigned to BANDAI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Game device and storage medium" was invented by Daisuke Sakamoto (Tokyo), Yuri Okamoto (Tokyo), Erika Yasuda (Tokyo), Asaki Murakami (Tokyo) and Atsushi Yashiki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game device is configured to: cause a first character related to a game that is played on the game device to be displayed on a display; and perform communication by a first method of transmitting and receiving information to and from another game device and a second method of transmitting and receiving information to and from an external device. The game device is configu...