US Patent Issued to Nintendo, The Pokemon on Sept. 9 for "Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein game program, game system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,387, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) and The Pokemon Co. (Tokyo).

"Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein game program, game system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method" was invented by Kazumasa Iwao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example of a game program, a ground boarding target object or an air boarding target object is selected by a selection operation, and a player character is caused to board the selected boarding target object. If the player character aboard the air boarding target object moves toward the ground, t...