ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,927, issued on July 22, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium, information processing system, and game processing method" was invented by Yuya Sato (Kyoto, Japan), Takuma Deguchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Yosuke Sakooka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of an information processing system performs a control for moving a non-player character so as to accompany a player character, and a control for stopping movement of the non-player character within a first range according to stop of movement of the player character. The information processing system executes a control corresponding to the no...