US Patent Issued to SONY on March 25 for "Information processing system and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,494, issued on March 25, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system and information processing method" was invented by Atsushi Shionozaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method is disclosed. In one embodiment, a game space of a positional information game is controlled, a plurality of user terminals executing the positional information game to access the game space based on locations of the user terminals in a real space. Information of human activities regarding regions in the real space is obtained, the regions including at least a first region and a second region neighboring...