ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,588, issued on June 23, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium, information processing system, information processing device, and game processing method" was invented by Wataru Mori (Kyoto, Japan) and Takuhiro Dohta (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of an information processing system transitions from a first state to a second state a location that is associated with a predetermined event having occurred, from among a plurality of locations that are set in the virtual space. The information processing system identifies an area where a total decision value is equal to or greater than a ...