ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,404, issued on June 9, was assigned to OP Solutions LLC (Amherst, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for video coding for machines using an autoencoder" was invented by Hari Kalva (Boca Raton, Fla.), Borivoje Furht (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Velibor Adzic (Canton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for encoding and decoding video for machine consumption (video coding for machines) are provided in which an autoencoder is employed. The autoencoder has an encoder portion, a bottleneck portion, and a decoder portion. The autoencoder being distributed between a VCM encoder and VCM decoder such that the VCM encoder includes the en...