ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,198, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CYGAMES INC. (Tokyo).

"Non-transitory computer readable medium, information processing method, and game device" was invented by Tomoya Taguchi (Tokyo), Seiya Kamizato (Tokyo), Yuki Nishi (Tokyo), Masaru Kubo (Tokyo), Nozomi Kikuchi (Tokyo) and Ikko Suto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute: processing for storing character information of a character nurtured in a nurturing game, in association with unique information of a player who nurtured the character; processing for, based on an operation by a first pla...