ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,160, issued on July 14, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Temporal attention-based neural networks for video compression" was invented by Vineeth Rakesh Mohan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Fabien Racape (San Francisco), Ujwal Dinesha (College Station, Texas) and Hyomin Choi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for video encoding and/or video decoding using artificial neural networks (e.g., convolutional neural networks or recurrent neural networks), attention, and/or attention with spatial attributes. For example, an apparatus may be configured...