ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,071, issued on June 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and audio processing device" was invented by Myungjin Jung (Tokyo) and Takuro Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding at least one candidate location, a generation unit configured to generate sound data for expressing a sense of distance from a current location of a user to the candidate location acquired by the acquisition unit using a plurality of sound sources, and an output unit configu...