ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,885, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Transmitting method, receiving method, transmitting apparatus, and receiving apparatus" was invented by Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Hisaya Katou (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitting method for transmitting contents using a broadcast wave and a communication path comprises: including content information in application control information when transmitting the contents using both the broadcast wave and the communication path, the conte...