US Patent Issued to SEGA on Sept. 1 for "Recording medium and information processing device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,087, issued on Sept. 1, 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 that cause a computer that executes a game in which a player can acquire paid items by taking a purchase procedure, the instructions causing the computer to execute: storing, in a storage, possessed item information including a paid item possessed by the player and an expiration period of the paid item; automatically consuming the paid item with a lapse of the expiration period and re...