ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,334, issued on March 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Reception apparatus, transmission apparatus, and information processing method" was invented by Shuichiro Nishigori (Tokyo), Hirofumi Takeda (Tokyo) and Takahiro Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reception apparatus includes a reception processing section configured to receive data including an acoustic signal and reproduction enabled/disabled information for a haptic sensation signal, and a haptic sensation signal generation section configured to generate the haptic sensation signal on the basis of the acoustic signal received by the reception proces...