US Patent Issued to SEGA on Oct. 20 for "Information processing method, information processing device, and instructions for information processing" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,414, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SEGA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing method, information processing device, and instructions for information processing" was invented by Takahiro Otomo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method includes: modifying a display screen of a touch panel to display, during a game, a merchandise advertisement screen and an end button that ends displaying the merchandise advertisement screen; detecting a timing of a start to display the end button; detecting a timing of a touch operation, on a touch sensor of the touch panel, on the end button; calculating a time peri...