ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,402, issued on April 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program for application window having first display mode and second display mode" was invented by Seiji Muramatsu (Tokyo), Hiroaki Adachi (Tokyo), Kenji Yokoyama (Tokyo), Naoki Iwata (Tokyo), Hiroaki Kuriyama (Tokyo), Yukako Murakami (Tokyo), Kazuki Kozuma (Tokyo) and Toshiyuki Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a display control unit that displays an application window in a superimposed manner on an application screen so that a user is allowed to visu...