US Patent Issued to SATURN LICENSING on Feb. 18 for "Reception apparatus, reception method, transmission apparatus, and transmission method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,010, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SATURN LICENSING LLC (New York).

"Reception apparatus, reception method, transmission apparatus, and transmission method" was invented by Kazuyuki Takahashi (Chiba, Japan), Jun Kitahara (Shizuoka, Japan), Yasuaki Yamagishi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naohisa Kitazato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a reception apparatus including a first acquisition unit which acquires, preceding text format second signaling data to be transmitted in a lower-level layer than an IP layer in a hierarchy of a protocol of an IP transmission system and containing control information independent of ...