ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,236, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to INNOPEAK TECHNOLOGY INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Screen time management across multiple distributed devices" was invented by Shiyong Li (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaofeng Li (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yiwei Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A managing device, a method and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided for screen time management. The managing device collects screen time data from each of one or more managed devices, and stores the screen time data, the one or more managed devices being managed by the managing device. The managing device calculates over...