ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,766, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information processing system for bonding objects in a game space" was invented by Naoki Fukada (Kyoto, Japan), Takahiro Takayama (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuya Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of an information processing system selects a first object among a plurality of virtual objects by a selection operation of a user and generates a bonding object indicating respective bonding positions on the selected first object and a second object among the plurality of virtual objects. In accordance with a bonding instruction from the user, the ...