ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,272, issued on May 13, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Non-transitory storage medium encoded with computer readable information processing program, information processing system, information processing apparatus, and method of controlling information processing apparatus that allow processing of operations of character object high in zest" was invented by Shigeru Miyamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Tatsuo Nomura (Tokyo) and Chihiro Kanno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable information processing program executed in a computer of an information processing appar...