ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,739, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimized fast video frame repair for extreme low latency RTP delivery" was invented by Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.) and Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for modifying the encoding of a video in an ultra low-latency environment in response to a dropped or corrupted packet. A video source encodes the video using slice or tile encoding. Slice encoding divides each frame of the video into slices which are independently encoded. Each frame in a slice stream is either intra-coded or predictivel...