ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,648, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SATURN LICENSING LLC (New York).

"Reception device, reception method, transmission device, and transmission method" was invented by Yasuaki Yamagishi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naohisa Kitazato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reception device is provided that comprises a tuner and processing circuitry in which the tuner is configured to receive a digital broadcast signal based on an Internet Protocol (IP) transmission scheme. The processing circuitry is configured to store preference information of a user, and extract, from the digital broadcast signal, a signaling packet that includes a ser...