ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,747, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Distributed video coding using reliability data" was invented by Amit Bar-Or Tillinger (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Gideon Shlomo Kutz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), David Yunusov (Holon, Israel), Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Assaf Touboul (Netanya, Israel), Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is configured to generate prediction data for the picture, wherein the prediction data for the picture comprises predictions of blocks of the picture based at least in part on one or more previously r...