ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,666, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing system" was invented by Masanao Nishikido (Tokyo) and Akiko Iwaya (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client terminal and a server system having a plurality of processing units processing game applications are connected to each other via a network. In a game system as a cloud computing system, the server system makes the client terminal wait for a start of processing of an application when there is no processing unit assignable to the client terminal. When the processing unit beco...