ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,418, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Masaki Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan), Isao Ueda (Osaka, Japan), Yasushi Uesaka (Hyogo, Japan), Seigo Okazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Masahiro Muikaichi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes: an obtainer that obtains a ranking score assigned to each of a plurality of items of target broadcast content; a preference outputter that outputs preference information based on a viewing history of ...