ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,519, issued on April 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Autonomous mobile body, information processing method, and information processing apparatus" was invented by Kei Takahashi (Tokyo), Junichi Nagahara (Tokyo) and Yoshihide Fujimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an autonomous mobile body, an information processing method, and an information processing apparatus capable of improving user experience by an output sound of the autonomous mobile body. The autonomous mobile body includes a recognition unit that recognizes a motion of its own device, and a sound control unit that controls an output sound ou...