ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,870, issued on March 17, was assigned to SATURN LICENSING LLC (New York).

"Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method" was invented by Jun Kitahara (Shizuoka, Japan), Naohisa Kitazato (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuaki Yamagishi (Chiba, Japan) and Taketoshi Yamane (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method with each of which it becomes possible to perform transmission of control information according to an operation form. The reception device receive...