ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,765, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing terminal, information processing method, and program" was invented by Takuto Onishi (Tokyo), Masahiko Koizumi (Tokyo), Chihiro Sugai (Tokyo), Taiki Endo (Tokyo) and Koyuru Okimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing terminal, an information processing method, and a program which enable a sound content in accordance with an action by a participant in a conversation to be output in an immersive state. An information...