ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,625, issued on July 29, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Television receiver with a TV phone function" was invented by Kazunori Iwabuchi (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroki Mizosoe (Kawasaki, Japan), Mutsumi Shimoda (Kawasaki, Japan), Setiawan Bondan (Yamato, Japan) and Manabu Sasamoto (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A videophone system includes a processor which selectively sets a television (TV) broadcast program viewing function mode and videophone function mode in response to manual operation of a remote control, a decoder which performs, in the TV program view mode, a TV program-use decode function for decoding...