ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,444, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cygames Inc. (Tokyo).

"Method, program, and electronic device" was invented by Shuichi Kurabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments of the invention is a method that is executed on a computer equipped with a touch panel, wherein an angle indicated by a set of data points is determined on the basis of the data points, the data points being acquired on the basis of a user operation on the touch panel; for each predefined period, one or more acquired data points are held as a data point sequence; a displacement speed in the held data point sequence is determined on the...