US Patent Issued to Nintendo on Dec. 2 for "Storage medium storing game program, game system, game apparatus, and game processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,349, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium storing game program, game system, game apparatus, and game processing method" was invented by Shinichiro Biwasaka (Kyoto, Japan) and Atsushi Asakura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Movement control of a player character in a virtual space is performed based on a user's operation input. When it is determined that an impact has been applied to a first object in the virtual space, the first object, or a second object instead of the first object, is installed on a terrain object related to a location where the impact has been applied to ...