US Patent Issued to Nintendo on July 21 for "Storage medium, information processing system, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,940, issued on July 21, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium, information processing system, and information processing method" was invented by Shun Utsugi (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuto Kobayashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a game system sets appearable items from among a plurality of types of items causing effects in a game, based on selection by a user, and gives any item from among the appearable items to a game object based on first data that is set in correspondence with a game situation, when the game object satisfies a predetermined condition. When any item cannot be given ...