ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,850, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program" was invented by Go Igarashi (Tokyo), Naoki Shinmen (Tokyo), Kohei Asada (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiyuki Kuroda (Chiba, Japan) and Masaki Kamata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (30) includes a sound source extraction unit (341) and a mapping processing unit (343). The sound source extraction unit (341) extracts one or more audio data (AD) corresponding to different sound sources from audio content (AC). The mapping processing unit ...