ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,691, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SATURN LICENSING LLC (New York).

"Reception apparatus, reception method, and program for switching between first and second content" was invented by Naohisa Kitazato (Tokyo) and Yoshiharu Dewa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception block configured to receive broadcast content broadcast via a broadcasting network; an acquisition block configured to acquire inserted content that is inserted in the broadcast content during the reception thereof; an output block configured to output at least one of the broadcast content and the inse...