Advanced Video Technologies LLC (AVT) is a technology licensing company that was established to expand the uses and applications for – and, ultimately, license and commercialize – the technology covered by U.S. Patent No. 5,781,788, “Full Duplex Single Chip Video Codec.”

Advanced Video Technologies is a portfolio company of the Idea Incubator of IP Holdings LLC, the IP-centric merchant banking affiliate of General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent monetization firm. GPC is the exclusive licensing agent for the AVT Patent.

The ‘788 patent describes a single-chip video compression/decompression technology that receives video input from a NTSC-compatible or PAL-compatible camera and a transmit channel. The video data from the camera or other input source is compressed by the video codec and transmitted out in compressed form on a transmit channel.