ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,033, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SEGA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medal game machine" was invented by Tsutomu Uchida (Tokyo), Takao Fukuoka (Tokyo), Daisuke Suzuki (Tokyo), Kouhei Hashimoto (Tokyo), Nobuyuki Iwasaki (Tokyo), Yusuke Masunaga (Tokyo), Hirotaka Yoshimatsu (Tokyo), Jun Takenaka (Tokyo), Ikuko Higashiyama (Tokyo) and Seiya Sumi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medal game machine capable of improving a degree of satisfaction of a player with a medal game and enjoyment of the medal game by performing: forming of the medal tower, pushing of the medals, and feeding of medals do not affect each other and are visible to the pla...