ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,437, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method" was invented by Taiyo Furukawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For an object group including at least one object, the number of sounds to be reproduced is determined in accordance with the total number of objects. In addition, a reproduction sound(s) whose number is equal to the number of sounds is selected through random selection such that, with a probability based on a ratio of the number of each typ...