ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,072, issued on April 21, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Chunked transcoding and uploading for video transmission" was invented by Yichen Wang (Shenzhen, China), Yuechuan Li (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Si Wang (Santa Monica, Calif.), Yihuan Zhou (Los Angeles), Haoyun Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Junhong Nie (Redondo Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Uploading of a video file is performed by transcoding, processing and uploading portions of the video file in parallel, to reduce total processing and upload time. The processing of the video file may include applying associated augmented reality ...