US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on March 17 for "Information processing device, information processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,539, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program" was invented by Shinichi Kariya (Chiba, Japan), Taeko Neda (Tokyo) and Kensaku Ishizuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing device including a measured value acquisition section, a contact event detection section, and an activeness determination section. The measured value acquisition section acquires a measured value indicative of a change in the motion state of a part of a housing. The contact event detection section detects, on the...