ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,840, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Shosuke Aoai (Tokyo), Tasuku Inui (Tokyo) and Kohta Horiuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a processing unit. The processing unit selects one communication section from a plurality of communication sections having different communication schemes, on the basis of broadcast information indicating a broadcast use of a video to be transferred and broadcast status information indicating a status of utilization of the video when the broadcast in...