DeNA Assigned Patent

DeNA, Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,079,100) developed by Watabe, Yoshiki, Tokyo, Japan, for a “non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing game program, and information processing device.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing game program according to the present invention causes a computer to execute: an automatic move process of automatically moving a player character on a game field toward a first destination on the basis of destination information regarding a destination set in the game field, when an operation input to start an automatic move of the player character on the game field is received from a player, a destination change process of changing the first destination to a second destination on the basis of the destination information when an operation input to change the destination is received from the player while the player character is on the automatic move, and an automatic move changing process of automatically moving the player character, moving toward the first destination on the game field, toward the second destination.“

The patent application was filed on May 7, 2014 (14/271,735).