US Patent Issued to KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT on Feb. 18 for "Method for controlling game apparatus, game system, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,705, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for controlling game apparatus, game system, and recording medium" was invented by Shigeru Chiba (Tokyo), Junki Hirai (Tokyo), Kai Inoue (Tokyo), Akira Sakai (Tokyo), Tsuguo Shinpo (Tokyo) and Toshiaki Kanahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium causes a processor of a game apparatus to function as a game controller that executes a video game and generates video information indicative of a video of the video game; and an acquirer that acquires message information that is output f...