ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,630, issued on July 28, was assigned to NAGRAVISION SARL (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Method for remotely programming a programmable device" was invented by Jerome Perrine (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Karine Villegas (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Didier Hunacek (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Andre Nicoulin (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland) and Richard Roulleau (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for remotely programming a programmable device designed to provide an expected sensitive result. The method including transmitting a first program code to the progra...