ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,364, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Video streaming pattern detection and burst prediction" was invented by Marcelo Schiocchet (San Diego), Kausik Ray Chaudhuri (San Diego), Ayman Tharwat Abdelhamid (San Diego) and Supratik Bhattacharjee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for data processing and related non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided. In the method, the apparatus computes a burst threshold for a data stream. The burst threshold is associated with a throughput of the data stream. The apparatus further identifies a set of bursts in the data stream based on the ...