ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,536, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).

"Service providing system, service providing method and program" was invented by Kyosuke Tomoda (Tokyo) and Shuhei Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service providing system provides a service allowed to be logged in to from each of a plurality of user terminals. At least one processor is configured to execute predetermined authentication for each of the user terminals under a state in which the service has been logged in to from the user terminal. The at least one processor performs a setting relating to the service for each of the user terminals based on ...