ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,506, issued on March 25, was assigned to BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Game system, server system, method of performing a game and method of providing information on a game" was invented by Kohei Ikeda (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The game system is configured to perform: a stop-playing process to stop-playing the game during playing the game; a game status identification process to identify a game status at the stop-playing by the stop-playing process; a task setting process to set, as a task of the game, the identified task by performing the task identification process to identify the task informatio...