ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,854, issued on March 18, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program class" was invented by Noriaki Takagi (Tokyo), Masahiro Shimase (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoyuki Sonoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kohei Takada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing device to realize a rich motion expression of an autonomous mobile object by easier attitude control. The information processing device includes: a motion control unit that controls a motion of an a...