ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,337, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having information processing program stored therein, information processing system, and information processing method" was invented by Yuji Kando (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of second coordinate sets in a virtual space are calculated on the basis of a first coordinate set to which an operation target object is moved. For each of the plurality of second coordinate sets, a movement allowance degree indicating whether or not movement of a follow-up object to the second coordinate set ...