ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,939, issued on April 15, was assigned to CYGAMES INC. (Tokyo).

"Program, game-virtual-space providing method, and game-virtual-space providing device" was invented by Masahiko Koyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer that provides a game virtual space in which a game object is placed in a predetermined plane is caused to function as: a generation unit that generates the game virtual space, which is a spherical coordinate space; an acquisition unit that acquires information related to a cartesian coordinate system including the position of a target to be displayed in the game virtual space; a conversion unit that convert...