ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,197, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to BANK OF INNOVATION INC. (Tokyo).

"Program, method and information processing apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Furukawa (Tokyo).

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 based on an input operation of the first player and an input operation of the second player; and associating a specific game object shared by the first and second players with the matched first player and second player. In th...