ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,332, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Video game with auto object placement mode" was invented by Kazuyoshi Sensui (Kyoto, Japan) and Masaki Yasuhara (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic placement mode is switched between ON and OFF in accordance with a setting parameter value set by a user. The setting parameter value and at least one in-game object is stored in association with each other. When the automatic placement mode is switched to be ON, the in-game object owned by the user, among the in-game objects associated with the setting parameter value, is automatically placed...