ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,015, issued on June 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing method, and program" was invented by Shunichi Homma (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing system to cause a performer who appears in content distributed in real time to give a performance according to a viewer's reaction in a remote location. The information processing system includes a control unit. The control unit acquires, from a terminal of a viewer on which content obtained by shooting a performance of a performer is being reproduced via a network in real t...