ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,448, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having game program stored therein, game processing system, game processing apparatus, and game processing method" was invented by Naoki Mineta (Kyoto, Japan) and Tatsuya Shinada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On the basis of orthographic projection, objects in a virtual space are drawn in a frame buffer, and further, in a first scene in a game, drawing is performed while transformation is performed by a vertex shader such that, among the objects in the virtual space, at least a player character o...