ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,043, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Video quality estimation with a machine learning model as an operating system service or cloud service" was invented by Rohit Bhalchandra Athavale (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With video quality estimation provided as an operating system service or cloud service, estimates of video quality can be collected unobtrusively and without feedback from video playback applications or viewers. For example, for a portion of reconstructed video content, an operating system service of a client computer system receives video d...