ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,697, issued on April 29, was assigned to NEXCADE Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Multi-shooting game machine" was invented by Yong Hwan Kim (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-shooting game machine is disclosed. According to the invention, the multi-shooting game machine is configured to include: a central monitor; a control unit that controls characters having different shapes from each other such that the characters are displayed on the central monitor at set times; and three or more game controllers, each of which has a shooting muzzle, a small monitor, and a shoot button for each player at a side of the ...