ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,722, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributing multimedia content to digital-signage devices" was invented by Kalyanaraman Balasubramaniam Krishnan (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to automatically distributing multimedia content based on device identifiers of digital-signage devices. A content-management application accesses a set of multimedia-content items, in which the set of multimedia-content items are associated with a content identifier. The content-management application detects a digital-signage device is registered to ...