ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,230, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Systems and methods of controlling virtual characters based on color within a game space" was invented by Shintaro Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes a controller which receives an operation input of a user and an information processing unit which performs an information process based on the operation input received by the controller. The information processing unit includes a game progress unit which controls an own character in the virtual space based on the operation input of the user to draw the virt...