US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Aug. 5 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,349, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Kento Takura (Tokyo), Motoki Sasaki (Tokyo), Kumiko Tsukahara (Tokyo), Fumihiko Nishio (Tokyo), Hyumin Seul (Tokyo) and Sho Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an extension function that permits more intuitive operations without interfering with the behavior of an external application. There is provided an information processing apparatus that includes a controller configured to control functional extension of an external application. The controller causes an exten...