US Patent Issued to KONAMI AMUSEMENT on June 23 for "Game machine, game system, storage medium used in same, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,591, issued on June 23, was assigned to KONAMI AMUSEMENT Co. LTD. (Ichinomiya, Japan).

"Game machine, game system, storage medium used in same, and control method" was invented by Naoyuki Sato (Ichinomiya, Japan), Yoshitaka Nishimura (Ichinomiya, Japan), Shinya Ishida (Ichinomiya, Japan) and Yuto Nishino (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a game machine in which pieces of music prepared in a music distribution service provided only to members can be utilized in game play. A game machine provides a music selection opportunity to select music for play, such that multiple pieces of music are included as option...