ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,581, issued on April 8, was assigned to Nagravision Sarl (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Testing rendering of screen objects" was invented by Douglas Gore (Pontyclun, Great Britain) and Ping Zou (Cwmbran, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for testing video data being rendered at or using a media device. A plurality of video frames to be rendered is received, each frame comprising one or more primary screen objects and at least one further screen object. The received frames are rendered at or using the media device wherein the at least one further screen object is...