ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,439, 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 Yuji Kando (Kyoto, Japan) and Akira Mizukami (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference position is determined on the basis of a position of a player character before the player character performs a target action at a first position. When the player character comes into contact with a terrain object at a second position by performing the target action, whether or not a height of the sec...