US Patent Issued to Nintendo on Sept. 16 for "Storage medium, game system, game apparatus, and game processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,137, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium, game system, game apparatus, and game processing method" was invented by Katsuhisa Sato (Kyoto, Japan), Haruki Sato (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuya Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first character disposed is controlled based on an operation input, and a second character is controlled automatically, in a first mode. The second character is controlled based on an operation input in a second mode. The control of the first character includes at least performing an attack action using a combination weapon object generated by combining ...