ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,928, issued on March 24, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Radio broadcast receiver and radio source switching method" was invented by Masataka Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yosuke Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio broadcast receiver comprising: a memory; and a processor that is coupled to the memory, and, when executing a program stored in the memory, performs operations. The operations include: receiving analog quality information indicating a reception quality of an analog radio based on a broadcast radio including a digital radio and the analog radio; and de...