ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,469, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Suwanee, Ga.).

"Devices and methods for switched digital video systems" was invented by Wei Wang (Shenzhen, China), Wenwu Wei (Shenzhen, China), Zong Chang Guo (Shenzhen, China) and Chuankai Kou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for switched digital video (SDV) systems. A first device used in an SDV system is provided, which can perform the following operations: generating a list of opened channels, wherein the list of opened channels includes at least one data field associated with one or more channels, ...