ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,465, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CYGAMES INC. (Tokyo).

"Program, method, and information processing device for game" was invented by Eisuke Odoriba (Tokyo), Shigeki Fujimoto (Tokyo), Keisuke Mase (Tokyo) and Yoshiro Takagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a program for a game for performing a battle by using a game-medium set selected from among two or more game-medium sets, the game-medium set being organized and stored before the start of the battle and including game media selected from among game media possessed by a user, the program causing a computer to execute steps: for storing, when a selection inp...