ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,525, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Systems and methods of producing assembled objects within a virtual space" was invented by Naoki Fukada (Kyoto, Japan), Tadashi Sakamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Haruki Sato (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuya Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A region is set in a virtual space, based on a user's operation. A material object is moved in the virtual space, based on the user's operation. A product relating to a plurality of the material objects is caused to appear with at least a portion of the product included in the region, using at least the material objects havin...