ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,841, issued on May 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Advice provision method for user using household appliance while viewing terminal screen" was invented by Hiroshi Yoshitake (Chiba, Japan), Hideo Umetani (Kanagawa, Japan), Kentaro Nakai (Hyogo, Japan), Keigo Aso (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shunsuke Kuhara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A provision method provides plurality of pieces of advice pertaining to household appliances of a user on a tablet 103. A priority of each piece of advice is changed by determining whether an advice-specific standard for the user ...