US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Sept. 1 for "Techniques for adaptive video multicasts through acoustic channels in underwater environments" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,280, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Techniques for adaptive video multicasts through acoustic channels in underwater environments" was invented by Dario Pompili (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Zhuoran Qi (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for underwater video transmission include a model with a neural network encoder. The encoder outputs a class of physical-layer acoustic coding (AC). A training set includes a quality metric, an application layer video coding (VC) structure for that quality metric, and acoustic channel information such that reco...