ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,965, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"Content management device, content management method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Yohko Seike (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The content management device includes a content playback time adjacency determiner, a common scroll message setting operation acceptor, and a playback controller. The content playback time adjacency determiner determines whether playback times of a first piece of content and a second piece of content are adjacent. The operation acceptor accepts an operation to set a common scroll message that is the sa...