ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,748, issued on July 29, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Video processing system for demultiplexing received compressed and non-compressed video signals and transmitting demultiplexed signals" was invented by Nobuaki Kabuto (Kunitachi, Japan), Akira Shibata (Fujisawa, Japan) and Yoshiaki Mizuhashi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is intended to permit both real-time display of a picture represented by a non-compressed video signal on a television and display of a picture represented by a compressed video signal at any desired time by simultaneously transmitting the compressed video sig...