US Patent Issued to Sharp on June 17 for "Information processing apparatus and method for controlling information processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,085, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and method for controlling information processing apparatus" was invented by Masaki Tawada (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: a display; a communicator that communicates with a key input receiving device; and a controller that performs control to display a soft keyboard on the display if the controller does not receive information indicating content of key input from the key input receiving device before a predetermined period of time elapses after the information processing appa...