US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on Jan. 27 for "Storage medium storing game program, game system, game apparatus, and game processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,589, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium storing game program, game system, game apparatus, and game processing method" was invented by Shinichiro Biwasaka (Kyoto, Japan), Atsushi Asakura (Kyoto, Japan), Naoya Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Tadashi Sakamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Corey Michael Bunnell (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuya Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Movement control of a player character in a field in a virtual space is performed based on a user's operation input. At least one first type of object is disposed in the field. Lightness for the first type of object is set such ...