ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,220, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system, and method of providing access to a subscription-restricted service of an application" was invented by Ofer Rivlin (Tel Aviv, Israel) and David Birnbaum (Modiin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, a computing system may be configured to provide a first computing device and a second computing device, which is paired with the first computing device, with access to a subscription-restricted service of an application, for example, based on a subscription confirmation to confirm a subscription to the subscription-restricted servi...