ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,645, issued on March 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Complexity aware encoding" was invented by Faouzi Kossentini (Vancouver, Canada) and Chekib Nouira (Mission, Canada).

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