ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,011, issued on April 15, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Broadcast reception device and video display method" was invented by Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Kyoto, Japan), Tetsuya Sakamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Motoyuki Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan), Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan), Nobuaki Kabuto (Tokyo) and Keisuke Inata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadcast reception device receives a digital broadcast service capable of executing an application cooperating with a broadcast program, and is provided with: a broadcast reception unit which receives broadcast waves of the digital broadcast service; a separation unit which separates v...