US Patent Issued to Nintendo on Oct. 14 for "Storage medium, information processing system, and game processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,762, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of an information processing system, when a player character is positioned at least on the ground, moves a non-player character being an ally of the player character in a virtual space. When the player character is positioned on the ground, the information processing system executes a first control associated with a predetermined character being the non-player character, according t...