ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,935, issued on May 26, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with executable information processing program stored thereon, and information processing system" was invented by Seiya Osuga (Kyoto, Japan) and Junichi Takatori (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new configuration in which a distance to a user in addition to a sleep state of the user is measured is provided. An information processing apparatus includes a sensing unit including a Doppler sensor, a distance measurement unit that measures a ...