ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,919, issued on June 30, was assigned to Preferred Networks Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device" was invented by Takuya Sato (Tokyo), Keisuke Mochida (Tokyo) and Takanori Uzuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes at least one memory; and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to display a screen for creating a program that causes a character to perform a series of actions by visual programming, a plurality of program components being arranged on the screen, and the plurality of program components indicating a plurality of actions included in the series of a...