ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,018, issued on June 24, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Contents receiving system and client" was invented by Hideki Kamimaki (Fujisawa, Japan), Akira Date (Kunitachi, Japan) and Akira Tanaka (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reproducing audio content between a main terminal including a first speaker and a plurality of subsidiary terminals including a second speaker. Device specific identification (ID) information of the subsidiary terminals and association information for transmitting one of the audio data of the audio content to one of the subsidiary terminals are stored. The association infor...