ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,265, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Kazushi Yoshida (Tokyo), Tatsuya Tamaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Izuru Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsutoshi Aoyagi (Saitama, Japan) and Naoki Saito (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes: a signal acquisition unit that acquires an audio signal; a storage unit that stores head-related transfer function information corresponding to a user; a determination processing unit that determines whether or not the head-related transfer function information cor...