US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on Nov. 25 for "Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with executable information processing program stored thereon, game system, game device, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,870, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with executable information processing program stored thereon, game system, game device, and information processing method" was invented by Masamichi Sakaino (Kyoto, Japan), Naoya Morimura (Kyoto, Japan) and Satoshi Kawamata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When another information processing apparatus issues a request for participation of another player in multi-person play based on communication, a processor of a game device allows a state that another player has not participated in multi-person pla...