ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,699, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing method for managing a video call" was invented by Masako Kadobayashi (Tokyo) and Masatoshi Fukuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device including a call control unit that controls a video call between a performer terminal used by a performer and a participant terminal used by a participant, in which the call control unit forcibly terminates the video call on the basis of a stop request received from the performer terminal or an observer terminal used by an observer who monitors t...