ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,780, issued on June 30, was assigned to KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control method of game apparatus, control method of server apparatus, information processing system, and recording medium" was invented by Shigeru Chiba (Tokyo), Hiroshi Tanibuchi (Tokyo), Junki Hirai (Tokyo), Kai Inoue (Tokyo), Tsuguo Shinpo (Tokyo), Akira Sakai (Tokyo) and Toshiaki Kanahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program recorded in a computer-readable recording medium causes a processor of a server apparatus communicable with a game apparatus that executes a video game and generates video information indicative of a video of th...