US Patent Issued to COLOPL on March 11 for "Recording medium having recorded thereon game program, game method, and terminal apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,258, issued on March 11, was assigned to COLOPL Inc. (Tokyo).

"Recording medium having recorded thereon game program, game method, and terminal apparatus" was invented by Naruatsu Baba (Tokyo) and Jiro Taoka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game based on a game program includes a game configured to progress by moving a location of a terminal apparatus possessed by a user, the game program causing a processor to perform enabling the game to progress by using predetermined moving means to move the terminal apparatus by the user who possesses the terminal apparatus, and announcing information for the user using a display unit in...