ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,110, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Content viewing method and mobile information terminal used for same" was invented by Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Oyamazaki, Japan), Yasunobu Hashimoto (Oyamazaki, Japan), Hiroshi Shimizu (Oyamazaki, Japan) and Yoshinori Okada (Oyamazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content viewing method uses a viewing system including a content distribution server distributing contents, a mobile information terminal, and a viewing device reproducing a content. The mobile information terminal transmits user identification information and a user password to the content distribution...