ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,593, issued on May 12, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Keijiroh Nagano (Tokyo), Shingo Utsuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mari Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition unit and a reproduction control unit. The acquisition unit acquires avoidance region information about an avoidance region where at least one of entrance of a target person who is a target to whom virtual content is reproduced or entrance of a virtu...