US Patent Issued to The Pokemon on March 25 for "Gamification of health awareness based on a wake-up time" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,513, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Pokemon Co. (Tokyo).

"Gamification of health awareness based on a wake-up time" was invented by Takayuki Shindo (Tokyo), Satoshi Ogawa (Tokyo), Kaname Kosugi (Tokyo), Marie Shuto (Tokyo) and Koya Nakahata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a user with motivation to enjoy waking up in the morning and guide the user to sufficient awakening by generating a breeding event in a breeding game of a virtual life form when the user wakes up in the morning. A game server that manages progress of a breeding game of a virtual life form can provide a user with motivation to ...