ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,616, issued on June 2, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Streaming neural network video codec system and method" was invented by Mengjun Leng (San Jose, Calif.), Samer Lutfi Hijazi (San Jose, Calif.), Rafal Pilarczyk (Plock, Poland) and Radhakrishna Shri Venkata Achanta (Vallorbe, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A streaming neural network video codec that leverages temporal redundancy, processing video frames in a rolling window fashion. By encoding video frames using information from multiple frames and only transmitting essential codewords, the system ensures efficient compression with reduced com...