US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Feb. 3 for "Information processing apparatus and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,926, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and method" was invented by Takaaki Yamasaki (Osaka, Japan) and Shinichi Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus causes a display to display an image obtained in a virtual space, the display being provided for a user, the virtual space being configured to allow an avatar indicating the user to move. The information processing apparatus includes: an input interface that receives a user operation to set a specific object as a target for predetermine...