US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on May 27 for "Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and program for displaying processing step progress" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,526, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and program for displaying processing step progress" was invented by Julie Lockhart (San Mateo, Calif.) and Erika Ohno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus that sequentially executes a plurality of information processing steps, includes: a management section that manages the plurality of information processing steps by dividing the plurality of information processing steps into a plurality of processing groups; an information pr...