ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,886, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Video compression using neural networks" was invented by Ming-Yu Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Ting-Chun Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Arun Mohanray Mallya (San Jose, Calif.), Tero Tapani Karras (Helsinki), Samuli Matias Laine (Vantaa, Finland), David Patrick Luebke (Charlottesville, Va.), Jaakko Lehtinen (Helsinki), Miika Samuli Aittala (Helsinki) and Timo Oskari Aila (Tuusula, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform compression of video data using neural networks to facilitate video streaming, such as video conferenci...