ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,742, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Processing and transmitting video data" was invented by Harald Karl (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments relates to an integrated switching arrangement, in particular an FPGA or ASIC, for processing and transmitting data comprising at least video data in a network. Routes for individual data streams are specified via a configurable addressing scheme. One or more example embodiments further relates to a network device, a network and a method for processing and transmitting data."

The patent was filed on Oc...