US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on March 3 for "Storage medium, information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,788, issued on March 3, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium, information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method" was invented by Yuya Sato (Kyoto, Japan) and Takashi Kuboki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of an information processing system moves a player character in accordance with an operation of a player, automatically moves a first non-player character, and when the player character is on a movable object and the movable object is moving, places the first non-player character on the movable object and causes the first non-player charac...