ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,765, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Storage medium, game system and game control method" was invented by Shinya Sano (Kyoto, Japan), Kodai Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Takaki Abe (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-limiting example game system includes a main body apparatus that executes a virtual game, and a game screen is displayed on a display. On the game screen, a player character and background objects such as a floor, stairs and a door are displayed, an indicating object is displayed so as to surround the player character. The indicating object is an object that indicates a...