ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,341, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Non-transitory storage medium encoded with computer readable game program, game system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method that allow execution of online mission with use of data in game" was invented by Naoya Morimura (Kyoto, Japan), Jean-Francois Vidal (Paris) and Laurent Hiriart (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable game program executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus, at least one computer being configured to perform operations including ca...