ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,197, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Storage medium, game system and game control method" was invented by Daiki Hishida (Osaka, Japan), Abebe Tinari (Osaka, Japan), Takaaki Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Misaki Shindo (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 main story of a virtual game, and a game screen is displayed on a display device. If a player operates a ZL button when a predetermined flower object is arranged near a player character, a magic circle appears in front of the player character, and a rhythm g...