US Patent Issued to Nintendo on Dec. 30 for "Computer-readable media, information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,509, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Computer-readable media, information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method" was invented by Isamu Endo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an exemplary game of the exemplary embodiment, a non-player character is set to a first state or a second state. In the first state, the non-player character is controlled based on a plurality of processes including a process of causing automatic traveling, an animation process, an interaction detecting process to detect an interaction with another object, and a p...