ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,024, issued on April 14, was assigned to SATURN LICENSING LLC (New York).

"Reproduction device, reproduction method, and recording medium" was invented by Kazuo Yamamoto (Chiba, Japan), Toshiya Hamada (Saitama, Japan), Kuniaki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Shinobu Hattori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes circuitry configured to transmit, to a reproduction device, display-capability information representing performance characteristics of the display device. The circuitry receives video data from the reproduction device that includes brightness-characteristic information and information of a master video when th...