US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Oct. 14 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and program for transferring ownership of a virtual item" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,008, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and program for transferring ownership of a virtual item" was invented by Noriyuki Suzuki (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an apparatus and a method that unfailingly perform virtual item ownership transfer processing. A data processing unit that executes display control of an AR image in which a real object and virtual content are superimposed and displayed is provided. The data processing unit executes display control of a virtual item whose ownershi...