ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,342, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control system, operation method for control system, and recording medium" was invented by Shigeru Chiba (Tokyo), Akira Sakai (Tokyo), Junki Hirai (Tokyo), Kai Inoue (Tokyo), Tsuguo Shinpo (Tokyo), Toshiaki Kanahara (Tokyo) and Yoshihiko Narita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes: at least one memory that stores a program; and at least one processor that implements the program to: manage a contest in which a plurality of participants play a competitive video game; accept a registration request of each of a plurality of us...