ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,857, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Broadcasting contextual information through modification of audio and video interfaces" was invented by Harry Michael Cronin (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jan Jasper van den Berg (London), Christopher John Wright (London), David Michael Duffy (Zurich) and Phil Peter Catton (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here are approaches to transferring relevant information from a first electronic device (also called a "source electronic device") that is presently outputting an interfacing signal that is detectable by a second electronic de...