ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,675, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing system" was invented by Takanobu Ujisato (Tokyo), Yasuto Masuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Imanishi (Tokyo), Jun Shinomiya (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsukasa Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information processing devices that enable management of acquisition of a content and use of an acquired content are disclosed. In one example, a content acquired in a content acquisition permission area and ticket identification information associated with the content and configured to identify a tick...