US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Oct. 7 for "Information processing apparatus, program, and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,660, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, program, and method" was invented by Hiroaki Adachi (Tokyo), Seiji Muramatsu (Tokyo), Kenji Yokoyama (Tokyo), Yukako Murakami (Tokyo), Kazuki Kozuma (Tokyo) and Toshiyuki Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a conventional multi-window function, when it is desired to switch an application to another application, only one application can be switched, which lacks usability. Therefore, provided is an information processing apparatus that includes an operation unit configured to detect an operation by a user, and a display unit c...