ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,708, issued on April 22, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Portable terminal device and information processing system" was invented by Motoyuki Suzuki (Ibaraki, Japan) and Hideo Nishijima (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable terminal device in an information processing system and method includes a camera and a microphone. Data of obtained images and voice are transmitted to a server that identifies operations to be executed based on the received voice and image data. The server transmits an identification of one or more results of the plurality of operations to the portable terminal device. When the por...