US Patent Issued to THE POKEMON on Nov. 11 for "Game program, method, and information processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,851, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to THE POKEMON COMPANY (Tokyo).

"Game program, method, and information processing device" was invented by Yuki Terada (Tokyo) and Keisuke Miyagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game that receives information about sleep of users maintains enjoyment of the game without placing an excessive load on a server. The game includes receiving an operation input from a user; setting a first time at which a game is to progress and making a predetermined notification at the first time when the operation input is not received before the first time arrives; changing a state of the notification based o...