US Patent Issued to Intel on June 23 for "Offloading video coding processes to hardware for better density-quality tradeoffs" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,014, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Offloading video coding processes to hardware for better density-quality tradeoffs" was invented by Brinda Ganesh (Portland, Ore.), Nilesh Jain (Portland, Ore.), Sumit Mohan (San Jose, Calif.), Faouzi Kossentini (Vancouver, Canada), Jill Boyce (Portland, Ore.), James Holland (Folsom, Calif.), Zhijun Lei (Portland, Ore.), Chekib Nouira (Mission, Canada), Foued Ben Amara (Vancouver, Canada), Hassene Tmar (Richmond, Canada), Sebastian Possos (Sammamish, Wash.) and Craig Hurst (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques related to distributing the ...