ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,360, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Non-transitory computer-readable medium, information processing system, information processing method, and information processing apparatus" was invented by Kosuke Yabuki (Kyoto, Japan), Shoichi Obayashi (Kyoto, Japan), Masahiro Nakamura (Kyoto, Japan) and Masashi Onishi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example of a game system, a plurality of base areas and an inter-base route connecting the base areas are set on a field. If a game is started, a racing game where a course including the inter-base route and an intra-base route set in any of t...