ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,030, issued on June 3, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having image processing program stored therein, image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method" was invented by Atsushi Miyagi (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuhide Ueda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first texture including first color information, a second texture including second color information, and a third texture including height information are managed. The first color information, of the first texture corresponding to a surface of an object, obtained on the basis of...