ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,622, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing system" was invented by Kenichi Imai (Tokyo), Shigeru Enomoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Saito (Tokyo), Toshimasa Aoki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Satoshi Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus provide for communications between an information processing device operated by a first user, which is connected via a network to another information processing device operated by a second user, where an application executing on the information processing device and generating ...