ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,619, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, control circuit, and information processing method" was invented by Toshihide Shimuzu (Tokyo), Hiromasa Miyata (Tokyo) and Junji Ohama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing device including a voltage detection unit configured to monitor a voltage value of a signal output at a predetermined timing, and a signal control unit configured to stop output of the signal if the voltage value after a predetermined time elapses from when the voltage value detected by the voltage detection unit exceeds a f...