ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,031, issued on May 13, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and artificial intelligence model manufacturing method" was invented by Chisato Numaoka (Tokyo) and Masahiro Fujita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing apparatus that includes a preprocessing unit that determines whether or not to permit provision of a service based on emotion recognition on the basis of a predetermined criterion, an emotion estimation processing unit that performs the emotion recognition for a user by using an artificial intelligence function...