ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,493, issued on May 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system for determining a data center having an instance that executes an application" was invented by Takuya Iwai (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system that are capable of making a game server that executes an application appropriate. The information processing apparatus includes a decision unit. The decision unit determines, ...