ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,997, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SATURN LICENSING LLC (New York).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Teruyuki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user is assisted in performing a voice operation appropriately.A situation determination section determines a situation. A state control section controls a voice command appropriate for the determined situation to put the voice command into a receivable state. For example, the user is informed of what the voice command in a receivable state is, by means of display or voice output. The user can utter a voice command w...