ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,539, issued on May 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Muneyuki Horiguchi (Tokyo), Takeo Sakurada (Tokyo), Ippei Yamakoshi (Tokyo) and Shravan Tangudu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication with a user is more naturally and effectively realized. An information processing apparatus includes an autonomous mobile body that travels while maintaining an inverted state, and an operation control unit that controls an operation of the autonomous mobile body. The autonomous mobile body includes a main body, two wheels mounted on the main body, and a d...