ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,059, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Bit-rate-based variable accuracy level of encoding" was invented by Faouzi Kossentini (Vancouver, Canada), Hassen Guermazi (St-Bruno-de-Montarville, Canada), Chekib Nouira (Mission, Canada) and Phoenix Worth (Delta, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to bit-rate-based variable accuracy level encoding. A device may generate a list of encodes based on pairs of resolutions and quantization parameters (QP) associated with one or more video segments received from a source. The device may generate a...