US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on Nov. 25 for "Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having game program stored therein, game apparatus, game system, and game processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,874, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having game program stored therein, game apparatus, game system, and game processing method" was invented by Akira Mizukami (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When there are a first number of first candidate objects in a first range close to a first object and there are a second number of second candidate objects in a second range far from the first object, the first object is caused to perform an action in one of (1) a first manner in which, before the action is performed with the second candidate obje...