ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,171, issued on March 18, was assigned to LAPIS Technology Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Data transmission device and data transmission method" was invented by Tadashi Takenoshita (Yokohama, Japan) and Tomoyuki Ichikawa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transfer device includes: a video transmission circuit 24, transmitting video data from a first device 10 to a second device 50 during a video period as a timing of transmitting the video data; a transmission part 32, 72, transmitting non-video data between the first device 10 and the second device 50 during a video blanking period as a timing of transmitting the n...