ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,584, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium, information processing apparatus, information processing system and game process method" was invented by Haruya Uematsu (Kyoto, Japan), Naoki Fukada (Kyoto, Japan), Yuya Sato (Kyoto, Japan) and Ryuju Maeno (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of an information processing apparatus displays, on a display device, a game image including a virtual game field where a player character is placed. The information processing apparatus generates a unified equipment object based on an equipment object and a material object, wherein the ...