ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,683, issued on July 14, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Content playback device, content playback method, and recording medium" was invented by Toya Kitagawa (Osaka, Japan), Nobuhiko Washio (Osaka, Japan) and Takeshi Sakai (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content playback device includes: a network interface that receives the current perceived temperature information for a person in a specific area from a server via a communication network; a memory that stores the perceived temperature information and date information indicating the current date; and a central proces...