ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,780, issued on May 13, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus" was invented by Shintaro Takei (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus capable of exhibiting appropriate performance with a simpler configuration. Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a projection unit that projects visible light onto a surface in a real space; a sensor that detects a position of the visible light projected onto the surface in the real space; a display unit having optical transparency; and a control unit that controls the projecti...