US Patent Issued to Maxell on June 23 for "Broadcast receiving system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,104, issued on June 23, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Broadcast receiving system" was invented by Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Kyoto, Japan), Takuya Shimizu (Kyoto, Japan), Nobuo Masuoka (Kyoto, Japan) and Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a first receiving unit receiving broadcast data for a first transmission method; a second receiving unit receiving broadcast data for a second transmission method; a first decoding unit decoding the broadcast data received by the first receiving unit; a second decoding unit decoding the broadcast data received by the seco...