ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,777, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with executable information processing program stored thereon, and information processing system" was invented by Seiya Osuga (Kyoto, Japan), Junichi Takatori (Kyoto, Japan), Sadayoshi Hattori (Kyoto, Japan), Shumpei Yamakawa (Kyoto, Japan), Yuki Matsuda (Kyoto, Japan) and Masahiro Kondo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new configuration capable of performing processing in accordance with a sleep state of a user and at least one of a p...