ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,627, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and cooking system" was invented by Masahiro Fujita (Tokyo), Michael Spranger (Tokyo) and Kenta Kawamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a flavor presentation unit that generates data for presenting, to a user who is present in a first space, a flavor of a cooking object that is present in a second space, the second space being separated from the first space; and an instruction generator that generates, on a basis of an input from the...