ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,914, issued on March 24, was assigned to CYGAMES INC. (Tokyo).

"Game management device, game management method, and program" was invented by Shuichi Kurabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game management device includes a storage unit that stores a list of a plurality of groups constituted of a member. The device further includes a merging-subject search unit that searches for various groups that satisfy a merging condition and that can be mutually merged from among groups with which the numbers of members have not reached an upper limit set in advance in a game and that are in a state in which it is possible to add a m...