ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,546, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program capable of flexibly setting virtual objects in virtual space" was invented by Ryuichi Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is information processing apparatus that includes an information acquisition unit that obtains first state information regarding a state of a first user and a setting unit that sets, on the basis of the first state information, a display mode of a second virtual object in a virtual space in which a first virtual object corresponding to the first user and the seco...