ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,594, issued on June 17, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Single camera time-delay to enforce data transmission compliance in real and near real time video" was invented by John A. Cogliandro (Dedham, Mass.), Matthew J. Tacy (Boston) and Allan Mayorga (Salem, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To prevent the transmission of excluded data, a short time-delay between capture and transmission of a video signal is exploited to process the buffered frames to recognize disallowed objects and control the video camera to prevent transmission of any frame including the disallowed object in the video signal. The time-delay can ...