ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,102, issued on April 21, was assigned to Haining ESWIN Computing Technology Co. Ltd. (Jiaxing, China) and Beijing ESWIN Computing Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing City, China).

"Smart card interface, data transmission method and television chip" was invented by Xin Liu (Beijing City, China) and Ziming Yu (Beijing City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a smart card interface, a data transmission method and a television chip. A first memory of the smart card interface is used for caching multiple pieces of indicator data corresponding to a video stream for a TV chip, and the multiple pieces of indicato...