ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,735, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Portable terminal" was invented by Motoyuki Suzuki (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable terminal device sets a security level for each application in accordance with position, and stores the level in a memory. The security level determines whether each application is displayed or made executable on a display portion in locked state and unlocked state. A controller refers to the security level and determines the application displayed on the display portion in accordance with position information acquired by...