US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on July 1 for "Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having game program stored therein, game apparatus, game system, and game processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,640, issued on July 1, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having game program stored therein, game apparatus, game system, and game processing method" was invented by Yoshihiro Iwasa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During play of a multi-player competitive game, a specified number of sets of play is performed on the basis of an operation input by a player, and a score based on a play result and a total score of the scores calculated so far are calculated for each play. Player information regarding each player of the multi-player competitive game is updated as...