ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,758, issued on July 21, was assigned to SEGA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Recording medium and information processing device" was invented by Takahiro Otomo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores instructions for a computer that executes a lottery game in which a player can acquire and consume currency items and obtain a content drawn from a lottery target content group, the instructions causing the computer to execute: storing, in a storage, an acquisition time at which the player acquired a currency item; consuming at least one currency item possessed by the player in response to a reque...