ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,532, issued on May 19, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL LTD (London).

"Secure decoder and secure decoding methods" was invented by Richard Clucas (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module having access to a secure memory and an unsecure memory, the module configured to: read, from the secure memory via a secure channel, a decrypted decoded rendition of a base layer of a video signal, wherein the decrypted decoded rendition of the base layer has a first resolution; read, from the unsecure memory, a decoded rendition of an enhancement layer of the video signal, wherein decoded rendition of the enhancement layer has a second re...