ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,032, issued on June 24, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Control integrated circuit for maintaining video output to conditional access module with aid of reference clock regeneration, associated television receiver and associated method" was invented by Xiangzhu Yang (Changsha, China), Xiaomao Zhou (Changsha, China), Mingrui Li (Changsha, China) and Liupeng Deng (Zhuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control integrated circuit (IC) for maintaining video output to a conditional access module (CAM) with aid of reference clock regeneration, an associated television receiver and an associated meth...