ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,197, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Out-of-loop filtering with video-specific machine-learned model" was invented by Emilien Dupont (London), Matthias Stephan Bauer (London), Lucas Marvin Theis (London), Hyun Jik Kim (London), David Paul Etienne Heurtel-Depeiges (Montreal, Canada), Dariusz Lasecki (Zurich, Switzerland) and Iryna Korshunova (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system can obtain a first video, a compressed video, and a decompressed video, the compressed video having been generated from the first video by application of a compression algorithm of a video codec,...