ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,980, issued on June 23, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Multiplexer, video system, aircraft and method for outputting video data" was invented by Sven-Olaf Berkhahn (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplexer having a first video data input to receive first video data; a second video data input to receive second video data; a video data output to output the first video data and the second video data; and a switching device arranged between the first and second video data inputs and the video data output and designed so that all of the first video data are output by the video data output....