US Patent Issued to NINTENDO, THE POKEMON on March 18 for "Information processing system, server, and information processing method for performing exchange between games" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,636, issued on March 18, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan) and THE POKEMON COMPANY (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, server, and information processing method for performing exchange between games" was invented by Shinnosuke Miki (Kyoto, Japan), Noritaka Otsuka (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuto Shimizu (Kyoto, Japan) and Kojiro Taguchi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a server receives first event data from an information processing apparatus. The server stores therein event management data including event state information that indicates whether a second event has already occurred or has not yet...