ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,028, issued on July 7.

"Services over wireless communication with high flexibility and efficiency" was invented by Koji Yoden (Tamba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally, according to aspects of the present invention, a media content item may be casted by a user equipment (UE) to another UE over a local area network (LAN). The UE (cast device) may cast a local media content item stored on the cast device to another UE (media playback device) by streaming the local media content item to the media playback device over the LAN, so that the media playback device may play back the local media content item. The cast device may ca...