ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,033, issued on June 24, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Transmission method, reception method, transmission device, and reception device" was invented by Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Hisaya Katou (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitting method according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes transmitting video control information for reproduction of video data having an individually reproducible unit, transmitting the video data, determining a transmission order of audio control information for reproduction of audio data in...