ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,849, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and game processing method" was invented by Genki Yokota (Kyoto, Japan), Yuki Sakamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Koh Kojima (Tokyo) and Mitsuhiro Hagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When any one of a plurality of types of first operations respectively corresponding to a plurality of types of commands associated with each playable character is performed and the commands are executable, an example of an information processing system performs control such that an operation target charac...