US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on July 28 for "Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having game program stored therein, game processing system, game processing apparatus, and game processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,381, issued on July 28, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having game program stored therein, game processing system, game processing apparatus, and game processing method" was invented by Ryuhei Matsuura (Kyoto, Japan), Shiro Mouri (Kyoto, Japan), Shigeyuki Asuke (Kyoto, Japan), Hajime Nakao (Kyoto, Japan) and Ayano Masaki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first item is caused to appear in a virtual space on the basis of an operation input by a first player, and a player character is caused to acquire the first item on the basis of contact between a first ...