ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,307, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Daisuke Kawamura (Tokyo) and Erika Ohno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus determines a target state of a display element after transition, which is displayed on a screen of a display apparatus, according to an operation of a user, and displays a transition moving image that indicates a procedure of change of the display element from the initial state to the determined target state. The transition moving image includes...