ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,039, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Mux Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method for client-side, on-edge just-in-time transcoding of video content" was invented by Adam Brown (San Francisco), Justin Greer (Waunakee, Wis.) and Matthew L. Szatmary (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: accessing a video in a passthrough rendition encoded according to a passthrough bitrate and a passthrough resolution; and segmenting the video. The method further includes transmitting a first passthrough segment to a first device in response to receiving a first request for a first playback segment of the video in the passthrough r...