ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,718, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Full motion video (FMV) routing in one-way transfer systems using modified elementary streams" was invented by Jeffrey A. West (Redmond, Wash.) and William Harry Schulden (Laurel, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods relating to full motion video (FMV) routing in one-way transfer (OWT) systems are described herein. The present technology modifies or adds packetized elementary streams (PESs) of video streams, that are sent from the low-trust side of the OWT system, with a global unique identifier (GUID) that is used as an id...