ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,225, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Automatic correspondence of encoders and decoders to video ports" was invented by Brandon Hunter (Hollister, Calif.), Eric Hereford (North Richland Hills, Texas) and Suman Roy (Guwahati, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for automatically determining correspondences between communication ports of a networked device and encoders and decoders connected to those communication ports. In some embodiments, the networked device and the encoders and decoders are connected to a video communications network provided by a switch. The networked device...