US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 6 for "Video codec buffer quantity reduction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,839, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Video codec buffer quantity reduction" was invented by Yunfei Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Alican Nalci (La Jolla, Calif.), Felix C. Fernandes (Saratoga, Calif.), Hilmi Enes Egilmez (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hsi-Jung Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Jaehong Chon (Cupertino, Calif.), Jun Xin (San Jose, Calif.), Yeqing Wu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yixin Du (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reducing a quantity of buffers for a v...