ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,701, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and projection apparatus" was invented by Koji Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition unit and a projection control unit. The acquisition unit acquires surrounding environment information regarding a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The projection control unit controls, on a basis of the surrounding environment information, display of a projection pattern projected on a p...