ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,435, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Electronic device, method, medium, and program for switching parental control modes" was invented by Jie Li (Shenzhen, China), Hailiang Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Na Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Jun Tao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a method, a medium, and a program for switching parental control modes. The electronic device includes: a memory having an instruction stored thereon; and a processor configured to execute the instruction stored on the memory to cause the electronic device to...