ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,831, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method, and computer program" was invented by Yoshihiro Kosaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Hitoshi Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing apparatus that processes information regarding network environment resistance when performing time synchronization of devices. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that associates a boundary clock function retaining device having a boundary clock function with ...