US Patent Issued to SEGA on Aug. 18 for "Prize support unit and prize acquisition game device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,842, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SEGA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Prize support unit and prize acquisition game device" was invented by Masayoshi Ogawa (Tokyo) and Akira Wakou (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prize support unit including: a main body that directly or indirectly supports prizes, and couplers that are disposed around a periphery of the main body and couples the prize support unit with another prize support unit. Each coupler includes: a rotary body that is rotatable with respect to the main body, and a support that sandwiches and supports both sides of the rotary body in a thickness direction, and guides a rotation o...