US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on April 21 for "Systems and methods of synchronizing game states in a multiple player game by dynamically controlling moving object speed" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,631, issued on April 21, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Systems and methods of synchronizing game states in a multiple player game by dynamically controlling moving object speed" was invented by Wataru Asai (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing system in which a moving object (ball) is moved at a first speed in first to third virtual spaces of first to third apparatuses. In the second virtual space of the second apparatus, the moving speed of the moving object is changed from the first speed to a second speed lower than the first speed."

The patent was filed on Sept. ...