ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,147, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KOEI TECMO GAMES Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, recording medium, and usage object creating method" was invented by Kotaro Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan), Shota Iwasa (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuto Edagawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yu Oboshi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tatsuto Tsuchishita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus is configured to execute a game in which a user character takes action in a field in a virtual space based on an operation by a user. The information processing apparatus includes a material providing unit configured to p...