ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,912, issued on May 6, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Network based enforcement of geographical compliance" was invented by Venkatesh Dharmar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Edward Joseph Campbell (San Jose, Calif.) and Daniel Haight (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved systems and methods for enhancing the performance of network based computerized content rendering and hosting and providing of devices, systems and/or platforms by modifying the capabilities and providing non-native functionality to such devices, systems and/or platforms through a novel and improved application, networked based enforcement o...