ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,698, issued on March 24, was assigned to Adeia Media Holdings LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimization of encoding profiles for media streaming" was invented by Yuriy Reznik (Seattle), Karl Lillevold (Seattle), Abhijith Jagannath (Seattle), Justin Greer (Waunakee, Wis.) and Manish Rao (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein are directed toward creating one or more "dynamic profiles" for media (video) streaming in which an encoding bit rate (and optionally other profile settings) is optimized for particular content. More specifically, techniques involve performing one or more "probe" encodings of the par...