ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,517, issued on April 7, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Linked display system and linked display method" was invented by Kazuyuki Takizawa (Kyoto, Japan), Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Hitoshi Akiyama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linked display method to be executed by a first information device and a second information device which are connected so as to communicate with each other, the method comprising: starting a linked operation between the first information device and the second information device; disabling a power saving mode of the first information device to switch a screen display of ...