ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,903, issued on May 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Content restriction system" was invented by Dean Kenneth Jackson (Pittsburgh) and Daniel Victor Klein (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining a geographic location of a client device to determine whether to provide content to a user of the client device is disclosed. The system determines, based on a geographic location of the client device, whether to present the video item to the user of the client device for consumption by determining whether an address of the client device is of a first type; responsive to determinin...