US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods controlling NPC actions based on an expanding imitation region" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,667, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Systems and methods controlling NPC actions based on an expanding imitation region" was invented by Junhiro Nishiyama (Kyoto, Japan) and Koji Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A player character is caused to start a continuous action on the basis of an operation input. Every time a predetermined time elapses from the action start, a non-player character included in a predetermined range including a position of the player character and having a size corresponding to an elapsed time from the action start is determined. Then, the non-player c...