ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,704, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Processing video data" was invented by Harald Karl (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an integrated circuit arrangement, in particular an FPGA or an ASIC, for processing video data. It has a number of video interfaces for receiving and/or emitting video data from a plurality of data streams, as well as a frame buffer control system and a frame buffer interface. The invention further relates to a network device, a network, a computer unit and a method for processing video data."

The patent was filed on Oct. 31,...