ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,822, issued on April 7, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Protection of secure video content from malicious processing in the display pipeline" was invented by Ori Laslo (Rehovot, Israel), Orr Srour (Rama Hasharon, Israel), Matthew Morris (Seattle), Steve M. Pronovost (Kirkland, Wash.), Glenn F. Evans (Kirkland, Wash.) and Vadim Makhervaks (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory where video content is stored for access by processing components in a display pipeline is divided into different categories or groupings, each different category or grouping corresponding to a different se...