ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,853, issued on June 30, was assigned to THINE ELECTRONICS INC. (Tokyo).

"Transmission device, reception device, and transmission/reception system" was invented by Mio Ishikawa (Tokyo) and Shun Ideguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This transmitting and receiving system comprises a transmitting device 10 and a receiving device. The transmitting device 10 comprises a combiner 40 and a transmitter 50. The combiner 40 inputs a DE signal, video data (active data, blank data), and non-video data, and combines the video data and the non-video data according to a predetermined rule to output combined data. The transmitter 50 inputs ...