ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,408, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GREE Holdings Inc. (Tokyo).

"Game data transfer between different platforms" was invented by Toshiya Horie (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises steps of: storing first user identification information of a user on a first platform, the first platform able to provide the game; storing game data acquired through the game provided via the first platform, the game data being stored in association with the first user identification information; storing second user identification information of the user on a second platform; generating an identification code by encoding identificat...