US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 21 for "Display apparatus and peripheral device signal switching method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,137, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Display apparatus and peripheral device signal switching method" was invented by Seiji Tada (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus comprises a peripheral device signal switcher that selects and switches a data communication destination of a peripheral device connector between an internal computer and an external computer device in conjunction with switching of an input source of a video signal by a video signal switcher in such a way that a data communication destination of the peripheral device connector becomes identical to the i...