US Patent Issued to Google on June 23 for "Video streaming" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,051, issued on June 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Video streaming" was invented by Thomas Edward DeWeese (Boxborough, Mass.) and Jeremy Christopher Dorfman (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for compressed-domain compositing of video streams. A server obtains compressed video streams, each compressed video stream including multiple frames, each frame including a video content region that is a portion of the frame, encoded using a segment identifier for pixels included in the video content region, a...