US Patent Issued to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL on June 16 for "Secure enhancement decoding within protected execution environments" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,544, issued on June 16, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Secure enhancement decoding within protected execution environments" was invented by Colin Middleton (London), James Maddison (London), John Little (London) and Daniele Sparano (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for securely decoding video streams are disclosed. A secure execution space is established within a device to manage decryption, decoding, and enhancement operations without exposing protected content to non-secure components. Encrypted base video data is decrypted and decoded on protected resources, while enhancement data is decoded b...