US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on April 22 for "Information processing system and information processing method to control behavior of an agent" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,741, issued on April 22, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system and information processing method to control behavior of an agent" was invented by Itaru Shimizu (Tokyo), Shouichi Doi (Tokyo) and Tomoko Kouno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing system that includes a user information storage unit that stores user information related to a user, a personality information storage unit that stores personality information defining a personality unique to an agent, and a control unit that controls an externalized behavior which is a behavior externalized by the agent, ...