ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,418, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan) and THE POKEMON COMPANY (Tokyo).

"Storage medium, game control method, and game system for which a mission is progressed in solo-play and multi-play of a virtual game" was invented by Katsuhiko Ichiraku (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-limiting example game apparatus includes a processor, and the processor executes game processing of a multi-play and a solo-play. When a progress condition that is set to any mission of an overall mission including a personal mission set to a player and an others mission set to other player is satisfied based on a play ...