ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,094, issued on April 14, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Adaptive processing with multiple media processing nodes" was invented by Jeffrey Riedmiller (Penngrove, Calif.), Regunathan Radhakrishnan (Foster City, Calif.), Marvin Pribadi (Redwood City, Calif.), Farhad Farahani (Los Altos, Calif.) and Michael Smithers (Kareela, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for adaptive processing of media data based on separate data specifying a state of the media data are provided. A device in a media processing chain may determine whether a type of media processing has already been performed o...