ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,387, issued on June 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Probability adaptation rate adjustment and windowed probability update for entropy coding" was invented by Hilmi Enes Egilmez (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Alican Nalci (La Jolla, Calif.), Guoxin Jin (San Diego), Hsi-Jung Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Xin (San Jose, Calif.), Yeqing Wu (Cupertino, Calif.), Yixin Du (Milpitas, Calif.) and Yunfei Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are configured for accessing data representing video content, the data comprising a set of one or more symbols each...