ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,385, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BANDAI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Program, terminal, and game system" was invented by Takashi Nagura (Tokyo), Hideto Kotani (Tokyo), Nao Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Masahiko Saito (Tokyo) and Hyunsoo Lee (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses the problem of providing a program, a terminal, and a game system in which the usefulness to a user is improved. In the present invention, a game element for a deck selected from in-hand game elements of a player is displayed in a first region; the in-hand game elements are displayed in a second region wherein the first region and the second...