ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,420, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program for controlling processing loads of updated programs" was invented by Shusuke Kitamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Object]An information processing apparatus and a program for alleviating development burdens are provided.[Solving Means]An information processing apparatus 1 receives from a user a request to update a program file recorded in a repository and, in a predetermined manner at a time of receiving the update request, acquires reference information regarding a...