ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,459, issued on July 28, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system and information processing method" was invented by Itaru Shimizu (Tokyo), Asako Kawakami (Tokyo), Yuichi Tsubouchi (Tokyo) and Tomoko Kouno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system including a content generation unit that generates content with use of one or more pieces of material data generated from original content, and a metadata addition unit that adds, to the content, content metadata including material information associated with the material data used for generation of the content and generation infor...