US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on July 29 for "Storage medium storing game program, game apparatus, game system, and game processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,450, issued on July 29, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium storing game program, game apparatus, game system, and game processing method" was invented by Naoki Fukada (Kyoto, Japan), Corey Michael Bunnell (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuya Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Movem+ent-related parameters used in virtual physical calculation are changed such that a designated object selected based on an operation input is caused to perform return movement to return to previously recorded positions and orientations, sequentially backward from the time of giving a start instruction based on the operation...