ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,941, issued on April 15, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Non-transitory storage medium having stored therein information processing program, information processing apparatus, information system, and information processing method for outputting a music piece in a game in which a plurality of players participate" was invented by Masaru Tajima (Kyoto, Japan) and Sayako Doi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus capable of outputting a variety of background music according to game situations is provided.The information processing apparatus comprises: a competitive game execution...