ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,665, issued on July 1, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Program, information processing device, and information processing method" was invented by Kento Takura (Tokyo), Keiko Hiraoka (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: "An information processing device performs a process of changing, during activation of a first application, a plurality of functions of other than the first application executed by the information processing device to a state where collective restriction is performed according to a first condition, and a process ...