ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,790, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Game system, control method thereof and computer program" was invented by Yuya Takayanagi (Tokyo), Shuhei Iwata (Tokyo), Risa Takahashi (Tokyo) and Hayato Iwashita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for causing a computer of a game system to execute a processing for presenting players a board face in which a media placement space including placement areas where the gaming media are to be placed is provided for each player and a correspondence relation is established between one placement area of each media placement space and o...