ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,498, issued on April 7, was assigned to KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Recording medium, control method for server apparatus, and control method for terminal apparatus" was invented by Hideyuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Hiromori Hattori (Tokyo) and Hiroki Yamazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having recorded therein a program executed by a processor of a server apparatus, the program causing the processor to: receive a first user's input for a competitive video game that uses (i) card objects of the first user of a first terminal apparatus, and (ii) enemy card obj...