US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for enhanced multimedia signal broadcast, reception, data delivery, and data collection" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,052, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for enhanced multimedia signal broadcast, reception, data delivery, and data collection" was invented by Chandra Kotaru (San Jose, Calif.), Prabu David (East Lansing, Mich.) and Susanne Elkins (East Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New systems and methods allow for transmission of multiple types of content protocols over a unidirectional content delivery network, such as a television broadcast. Hardware and/or software used at the network transmission location (such as a television broadcast ...