ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,025, issued on March 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Keijiroh Nagano (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Shin Shiroma (Tokyo) and Daisuke Tajima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a hold determination unit. The hold determination unit determines, in a case where a rate of decrease of a distance between a first hold-side object and a second hold-side object that set a virtual object as a pinch-and-hold target becomes ...