ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,636, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium, information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method" was invented by Atsushi Haneda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first area in a virtual space, an example of an information processing system renders a first shadow positioned in a first direction from an object, and a second shadow positioned in a second direction from the object. The information processing system renders a third shadow positioned in the second direction from the object, in a second area darker than a first refere...