US Patent Issued to Crestron Electronics on May 6 for "Fast switching using variable refresh rate in a repeater environment" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,749, issued on May 6, was assigned to Crestron Electronics Inc. (Rockleigh, N.J.).

"Fast switching using variable refresh rate in a repeater environment" was invented by Adolfo Velasco (Dumont, N.J.) and Agesino Primatic (Pittstown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Switching from delivering a first video signal to a sink to delivering a second video signal to the sink is carried out. A repeater, connected to a previously authenticated sink, receives the first video signal outputted by a previously authenticated first source, and delivers the first video signal to the sink. The repeater receives a command to switch from the first v...