ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,583, issued on March 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and information processing terminal" was invented by Takayoshi Shimizu (Tokyo), Kazuharu Tanaka (Tokyo) and Masaaki Matsubara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is an information processing apparatus including a control unit that controls display of a virtual space, in which the control unit performs control to acquire communication information of one or more other users in another virtual space and present the acq...