ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,055, issued on May 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method for processing sound of real environment for displaying virtual experience" was invented by Tomohiko Gotoh (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a generation unit and an operation control unit. The generation unit generates environmental information of a real space around a user on the basis of a detection result of a microphone unit that detects a sound in the real space. The operation control unit control...