ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,575, issued on Sept. 16.

"Communications system and method for communicating between at least two locations" was invented by Patrick Rappsilber (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications system, including an image recording device which records images at a first location and generates image data therefrom, a data transmission device which transmits the data from the first location to a second location remote from the first location via a transmission path, a first receiver device that receives the transmitted image data at the second location, with the transmission path being selected from a plurality of selectable tran...