ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,940, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Information processing system, one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having program stored therein, and authentication method" was invented by Tatsuhiro Shirai (Kyoto, Japan), Takayuki Ohnishi (Kyoto, Japan), Norihiro Kozawa (Kyoto, Japan), Yohei Fushii (Kyoto, Japan), Shoya Ota (Kyoto, Japan), Hitoshi Sakai (Kyoto, Japan), Yusuke Ido (Kyoto, Japan), Yasunari Umano (Kyoto, Japan), Eugene Borisov (Redmond, Wash.), Vijay Ganesan (Redmond, Wash.), Theowen Le Maitre (Paris) and Sylvain Gaeremynck (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server ...