US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Aug. 4 for "Encoder and decoder, encoding method and decoding method with profile and level dependent coding options" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,237, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Encoder and decoder, encoding method and decoding method with profile and level dependent coding options" was invented by Adam Wieckowski (Berlin), Robert Skupin (Berlin), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Karsten Suhring (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder according to embodiments is provided. The video encoder is configured for encoding a plurality of pictures of a video by generating an encode...