ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,764, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information processing system, server, storage medium, and information processing method" was invented by Kouhei Maeda (Kyoto, Japan), Yuji Ohashi (Kyoto, Japan), Junichi Iida (Kyoto, Japan) and Shingo Matsushita (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a terminal apparatus designates a use object to be used in a competitive game from among a plurality of objects each being associated with an object parameter, based on a user's operation input. The example of the terminal apparatus designates a designation parameter indicating a value or rang...