ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,282, issued on April 22, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus and reception method for transmitting a plurality of types of audio data items" was invented by Ikuo Tsukagoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce a processing load at a reception side in a case where a plurality kinds of audio data items are transmitted.A container in a predetermined format having a predetermined number of audio streams including coded data items of a plurality of groups is transmitted. For example, the coded data items of the plurality of groups include either or both of c...