US Patent Issued to THE POKEMON on Nov. 4 for "Game system, game method, game program, and game server for a puzzle game" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,880, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to THE POKEMON COMPANY (Tokyo).

"Game system, game method, game program, and game server for a puzzle game" was invented by Manabu Yamana (Tokyo) and Masayuki Kawamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A puzzle game that enhances a degree of freedom of movement of a puzzle element includes selecting a first puzzle element; moving the first puzzle element; generating a coupled puzzle element when a puzzle element with a same appearance comes into contact with the first puzzle element; causing, when a second puzzle element of a different type comes into contact with the first puzzle element or the...