US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Feb. 10 for "Information processing device and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,672, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and program" was invented by Masanao Nishikido (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preference holding section 112 holds information denoting a preference of a user with respect to at least one item, the information being applicable to multiple applications. A providing section 114 provides the information denoting the preference of the user to the applications. The preference holding section 112 holds the information denoting the preference of the user with regard to a level of difficulty in game."

The patent was f...