US Patent Issued to Nintendo on Nov. 25 for "Storage medium, game system, game apparatus, and game processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,877, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium, game system, game apparatus, and game processing method" was invented by Naoya Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Daigo Shimizu (Kyoto, Japan) and Tadashi Sakamoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a command is given to perform a long distance movement that causes a location of a player character to move from a departure point where the player character is currently located to a destination away from the departure point and designated based on the user's operation input, at least a portion of a game process is interrupted, a waiting perio...