US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on April 7 for "Constrained optimization techniques for generating encoding ladders for video streaming" (Pennsylvania, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,307, issued on April 7, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Constrained optimization techniques for generating encoding ladders for video streaming" was invented by Sagar Bharadwaj Kalasibail Seetharam (Pittsburgh), Te-Yuan Huang (Campbell, Calif.), Renata Cruz Teixeira (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Xiaoqing Zhu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, an encoding ladder application generates encoding ladders that are used to stream media titles. The encoding ladder application generates an objective function based on a ladder configuration and a parameterized objective function. The parameterize...