ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,347, issued on April 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Signal processing device and image display apparatus including the same" was invented by Byeongkook Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a broadcast receiver including a tuner; and a controller, the controller being configured to: receive, via the tuner, a broadcast signal consisting of a plurality of physical layer pipes (PLPs) corresponding to a plurality of channels; determine, from among the plurality of PLPs, a PLP carrying program informat...