ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,489, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information terminal device and application operation mode control method of same" was invented by Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Naohisa Takamizawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide an information terminal device that improves convenience of use in operation mode control of an application that performs cooperative operation with a plurality of information terminal devices, and an application operation mode control method of same. Accordingly, an information terminal device that executes ap...