US Patent Issued to Nintendo on June 30 for "Video game with bondable virtual objects forming a user controlled assembled object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,784, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Video game with bondable virtual objects forming a user controlled assembled object" was invented by Naoki Fukada (Kyoto, Japan), Yuya Sato (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroki Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of an information processing system connects a plurality of virtual objects, thereby generating an assembled object, and selects as a selected object at least any one of the plurality of virtual objects forming the assembled object. In a case where the selected object is selected, and if an input to an input section satisfies a release cond...