US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on Sept. 2 for "Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having game program stored therein, game processing system, game processing apparatus, and game processing method" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,398, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having game program stored therein, game processing system, game processing apparatus, and game processing method" was invented by Theresa Melo (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a predetermined condition has been satisfied, an input determination period including a first period and a second period being a period after the first period is started. In the input determination period, when it has been determined that a first-time operation input by the user has been performed within the first per...