ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,751, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Differential signaling for video coding for machines" was invented by Liangping Ma (San Diego), Imed Bouazizi (Celina, Texas), Nikolai Konrad Leung (San Francisco) and Thomas Stockhammer (Bergen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for processing video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and a processing system implemented in circuitry, the processing system being configured to: receive data representing a plurality of neural networks associated with a video bitstream, each of the plurality of neural networks having a different...