ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,741, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for video coding performance assessment" was invented by Ding Ding (Washington), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium evaluating codec performance. One method includes obtaining m anchor data points each generated based on a respective anchor encoded video bitstream; obtaining n test data points each generated based on a respective encoded test video bitstream, n being an integer; fitting the m anchor data points with an an...