ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,862, issued on Oct. 7.
"Inappropriate use control system and inappropriate use control program" was invented by Katsunori Suetsugu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a current situation corresponds to at least one of action determination conditions as conditions for determining a curbing action as an action for curbing inappropriate use of an electronic device carried and used by a user, the electronic device determines the curbing action according to the action determination condition to which the current situation corresponds, and executes the determined curbing action."
The patent was filed on Nov. 28, 2023, under Applicat...