ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,590, issued on June 23, was assigned to CYGAMES INC. (Tokyo).

"Program, information processing device, method, and system" was invented by Takuma Akitsu (Tokyo), Hironori Sato (Tokyo), Yujiro Deguchi (Tokyo) and Kentaro Umeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a program, an information processing device, a method, and a system that make it possible to provide sociality in a raising game such that a player may be affected by other players, which serves to improve the fun of a game.An information processing device includes: a game-medium-to-inherit accepting means for accepting, as a game medium to inherit, a raised gam...