US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on April 15 for "Information processing system, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein information processing program, information processing apparatus, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,947, issued on April 15, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information processing system, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein information processing program, information processing apparatus, and information processing method" was invented by Wataru Asai (Kyoto, Japan) and Hirotake Otsubo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user character and an ally character are arranged in a first area of a virtual space while an opponent character is arranged in a second area of the virtual space. The user character is assigned one of a plurality of roles in a predetermined order, accor...