ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,262, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Motoki Kobayashi (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Yamanaka (Chiba, Japan), Shuji Hiramatsu (Tokyo), Shigeru Enomoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Taku Sugawara (Tokyo), Shinji Kimura (Los Angeles), Yumiko Tanaka (San Francisco), George Arriola (Los Angeles) and Carsten Schwesig (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A screen generating unit generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a...