ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,221, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Reproducing device, reproducing method, program, and transmitting device" was invented by Kouichi Uchimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitting apparatus including circuitry configured to generate caption data corresponding to content data and having elements defined in Extensible Markup Language (XML), and output the content data and the generated caption data to a reproducing device."

The patent was filed on Dec. 13, 2024, under Application No. 18/979,867.

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