US Patent Issued to SONY on Feb. 25 for "Electronic devices, method of transmitting data block, method of determining contents of transmission signal, and transmission/reception system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,918, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic devices, method of transmitting data block, method of determining contents of transmission signal, and transmission/reception system" was invented by Kazuaki Toba (Kanagawa, Japan) and Gen Ichimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Damaging a device that is not compatible with a functional extension is to be avoided. A signal is transmitted to an external device through a transmission channel. A data block containing capability information indicating existence/non-existence of compatibility with an extended function is received from the external device throug...