ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,638, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to BANK OF INNOVATION INC. (Tokyo).

"Program, method and information processing apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Furukawa (Shinjuku-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game program causes a processor to execute the steps of: presenting a first game field associated with a first player to the first player; matching the first player and a second player different from the first player; associating a specific game object shared by the first player and the second player with the matched first player and second player; and canceling the matching of the matched first player and second player ba...