ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,831, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CYGAMES INC. (Tokyo).

"Program, method, electronic device, and system for game involving multi-battle" was invented by Iori Ouchi (Tokyo), Miru Iwami (Tokyo), Takafumi Sato (Tokyo) and Ryo Kitazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a program, etc. for further encouraging a player to play a game. Provided is a program for a game including a multi-battle in which a plurality of players combat against a common enemy character, said program causing a computer to execute: a step of accepting a multi-battle initiation input from a player; a step of initiating a multi-battle for combat...