US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on Dec. 30 for "Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having game program stored therein, game processing system, game processing apparatus, and game processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,505, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having game program stored therein, game processing system, game processing apparatus, and game processing method" was invented by Yoshifumi Masaki (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroshi Ueda (Kyoto, Japan) and Koji Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a predetermined instruction has been made on the basis of an operation input in a case where a positional relationship between a player character and an arrangement object satisfies a predetermined condition, the player character is caused to perform a pred...