ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,601, issued on May 20, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Kentaro Ida (Tokyo), Honoka Ozaki (Tokyo) and Shogo Kawata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device that includes a control unit that specifies an output target electric device from a plurality of electric devices that outputs information to a user based on a sensor level corresponding to a detection resolution of a sensor included in each of the plurality of electric devices and an elapsed time since a detection of a user by the sensor included in each of the...