ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,402, issued on July 21, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method" was invented by Yifu Tang (Tokyo) and Shinichiro Tsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a control unit that acquires an automated driving level-corresponding allowable activity list in which the automated driving level and the allowable activity are associated with each other from an external server or a storage unit, refers to the automated driving level-corresponding allowable activity list, acquires the allowable activity corresponding to the automated ...