ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,949, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Information processing system and control method" was invented by Hiroshi Iwanami (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing system includes a generation unit that specifies a user who occupies or reserves occupation of a specific space unit in a predetermined area, and generates a heat map in accordance with attribute information about the user and a providing unit that provides the heat map as a user interface for the user to select a specific space in the predetermined area."
The patent was filed on June 13, 2024, under Application No. 18/742...