ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,674, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Broadcast reception device, broadcast reception method, and broadcast reception program" was invented by Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Osaka, Japan), Nobuo Masuoka (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Shimizu (Osaka, Japan) and Yasunobu Hashimoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadcast reception device includes: a program recording execution unit that stores, into a recording-content storage area, program identification information for identifying a broadcast program, and storage-destination information for specifying a server device storing the broadcast program; a recep...