US Patent Issued to Nintendo, The Pokemon on Nov. 25 for "Content holding system, storage medium and content holding server" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,869, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) and The Pokemon Co. (Tokyo).

"Content holding system, storage medium and content holding server" was invented by Hiroki Togashi (Tokyo) and Nobuyuki Ohta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-limiting example content holding system includes a game apparatus and a server, which are connected to each other communicably via a network. Multiple types of games can be played on the game apparatus, and a character used in the game can be deposited with the server. In a case of depositing a character with the server, character data is converted into a format havin...