US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 29 for "Context-dependent in-call video codec switching" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,251, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Context-dependent in-call video codec switching" was invented by Niklas Blum (Mountain View, Calif.), Magnus Flodman (Mountain View, Calif.), Christoffer Rodbro (Mountain View, Calif.), Philip Eliasson (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kari Helgason (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for context-dependent in-call video codec switching includes receiving an indication that a far-side endpoint includes a capability to switch from an initial video codec to a secondary video codec during a call. During a call with the far-side endpoint, t...