ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,605, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and method of controlling display device" was invented by Kenicirou Matsumura (Tokyo), Kuniichiro Naruse (Tokyo), Keita Saito (Tokyo), Akira Kurosawa (Tokyo), Hiroki Takagaki (Tokyo), Kiwako Miura (Tokyo), Yuki Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Takehisa Gokaichi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device is capable of switching between a first display mode and a second display mode, the second display mode having a larger display area than the first display mode. When the display mode is the first display mode in the first period, the d...