ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,782, issued on May 6, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Shosuke Aoai (Tokyo), Kohta Horiuchi (Tokyo) and Tasuku Inui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: a determination unit that determines a type or an intended use of transmission information transmitted from an imaging device to a predetermined device that performs processing related to imaging control of the imaging device; and an association unit that associates, with the transmission information, information regarding a network slice in whi...