ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,206, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing method, and nontransitory storage medium" was invented by Shigeru Chiba (Tokyo), Kai Inoue (Tokyo), Junki Hirai (Tokyo), Akira Sakai (Tokyo), Tsuguo Shinpo (Tokyo) and Toshiaki Kanahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system (1) includes: a first terminal (20) that controls progress of a game; and a second terminal (10) that is communicably connected with the first terminal (20) and that does not have a function to control progress of the game. The second termi...