ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,059, issued on April 21, was assigned to Axis AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method and a device for managing encoded image frames in a data buffer" was invented by Viktor Edpalm (Lund, Sweden), Johan Palmaeus (Lund, Sweden) and Alexander Toresson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method of managing encoded image frames in a data buffer is presented. Encoded image frames are buffered, for example in a pre-event buffer, in such a way that all stored, e.g., buffered, encoded image frames can be retrieved from the data buffer as a decodable video sequence and such that only those encoded image frames needed for obtaining a ...