ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,050, issued on March 31, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for multiple bit rate content encoding" was invented by Akshay Chetan Shah (Mumbai, India) and Padmassri Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for encoding a video stream at multiple bit rates is disclosed herein. An encoder divides each frame of a video stream into a plurality of portions and allocates an available number of bits between the plurality of portions based on user preference information. Portions having one or more objects of interest to the viewer determined based on the user...