US Patent Issued to Nintendo on April 22 for "Storage medium, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and game processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,311, issued on April 22, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and game processing method" was invented by Haruki Sato (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuya Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a special operation mode which receives an operation input for causing a player character that is falling, to perform a special action including a shooting action of shooting a predetermined object, an example of an information processing apparatus changes the posture of the player character that is falling, according to a component, regarding at lea...