ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,186, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Content output device and content output method" was invented by Masashi Akachi (Tokyo), Yuto Kojima (Tokyo) and Kentaro Yonei (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content output device includes an output unit configured to output, as target content, content designated by a passenger of a mobile object to a display device, an identification unit configured to acquire identification information regarding content viewing for each passenger seated on each seat of the mobile object, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to permit output of the t...