ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,812, issued on June 2, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method, communication devices and a server for controlling content" was invented by Tommy Arngren (Sodra Sunderbyn, Sweden), Bernard Smeets (Dalby, Sweden) and Peter Okvist (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method at a first communication device for providing a second communication device access to content, the method comprising: providing an offer to the second communication device, offering the second communication device conditional access to the content, wherein access to the content at the second communication device is adapt...