ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,916, issued on March 17, was assigned to BIG Digital Corp. (North York, Canada).

"Popup video display system" was invented by Yakov Neiman (North York, Canada), Michael Girgis (North York, Canada), Dmitri Melamed (North York, Canada), Jeff Wismer (North York, Canada), Diego Grimaldi (North York, Canada), Mazen Salloum (Toronto), Emmett Martin (North York, Canada) and Adam Smith (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A popup video display system is provided, which includes a digital screen component in communication with a content feeding system for displaying content, and a structural component having a weighted base por...