ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,779, issued on July 21, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for processing media data and device for processing media data" was invented by Jonghwan Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Joonhee Yoon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing media data according to embodiments may comprise the steps of: receiving service list provision information; transmitting region selection information on the basis of the service list provision information; and receiving media data on the basis of the region selection information."

The patent was filed on Jan. 19, 2023, under Application No....