US Patent Issued to Nintendo on June 3 for "Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having information processing program stored therein, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,695, issued on June 3, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having information processing program stored therein, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system" was invented by Yuya Ishii (Kyoto, Japan), Susumu Ishihara (Kyoto, Japan) and Yusuke Shibata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An item selected by a user is set as a first owned item. A state change item which changes a state of an operation character from a first state to a second state is associated with the operation character, and the operation char...