ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,969, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and recording medium" was invented by Toshiaki Kanamura (Tokyo), Kayoko Onoda (Tokyo) and Wataru Nimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a robot, a processor updates a personality parameter representing a pseudo personality of an own device on the basis of a personality parameter representing a pseudo personality of another device in a case of an approaching state that is a state in which the own device approaches another device of the same type as the own device within a predetermined distance ...