ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,776, issued on June 24, was assigned to Mason Electric Co. (Sylmar, Canada).

"Ruggedized remote control display latency and loss of signal detection for harsh and safety-critical environments" was invented by Robert Jay Myles (Reseda, Calif.), Thomas C. Ruberto (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Christopher L. Sommerville (Encino, Calif.), Harout Markarian (Porter Ranch, Calif.) and Kelly P. Ambriz (Newbury Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for overcoming latency and loss of signal detection in remote control displays. An exemplary system includes a remote control, a host computing devi...