ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,926, issued on July 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program" was invented by Daisuke Settai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An app is configured to continuously execute even while a display unit display is stopped in an information processing device. A control unit executes app execution control, and display control of the display unit determines whether an app being executed in normal operation mode is a fake sleep mode applicable app or a fake sleep mode non-applicable app. In the case of the fake sleep mode applicable app, transition is made to a ...