ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,682, issued on April 29, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information processing system, information processing apparatus, storage medium and information processing method" was invented by Toshiaki Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan), Misaki Hiraga (Kyoto, Japan), Rina Wegner (Tokyo), Hayato Minagawa (Tokyo) and Takeru Sugimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-limiting example game system includes a main body apparatus, and this main body apparatus performs communication with another main body apparatus in a communication game to play a virtual game. The virtual game is a multiplayer game that a plurality of players pla...