ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,934, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NantG Mobile LLC (Culver City, Calif.).
"Location-based content sharing via tethering" was invented by Michael E. Madden III (San Diego), Jesse William Snyder (San Diego), Jake Tyler Fyfe (Los Angeles), John Wiacek (Los Angeles) and Matthew W. Geer (Escondido, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sharing digital content includes determining whether a first computing device is physically located within a defined geographical area, if the first computing device is physically located within the defined geographical area, providing access of shareable digital content to the first comput...