ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,063, issued on March 25, was assigned to DRNC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Information processing apparatus display control method and program" was invented by Hirotaka Takahashi (Tokyo), Kenji Ozawa (Chiba, Japan), Maki Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Pieter Coenen (Lier, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a list screen of thumbnails associated with content, an execution unit that executes any application using the content associated with the thumbnails, and an image generation unit that generates an execution state image showing an ...