ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,520, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method" was invented by Yutaka Hiramuki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When an object of interest is hidden by a first hiding object as viewed from a virtual camera, the virtual camera is moved, on a virtual line from the virtual camera toward the object of interest, to a first position that is a position where the virtual line first passes through the first hiding object or a position closer to the object o...