ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,931, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Transmitting method, receiving method, transmitting device, and receiving device" was invented by Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitting method stores data making up a coded stream into a predetermined data unit and transmits the stored data in the predetermined data unit. The transmitting method further generates presentation time information indicating a presentation time of the predetermined data unit, based on reference time information received fro...