ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,398, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.), The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for performing video communication using text-based compression" was invented by Pulkit Tandon (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shubham Chandak (Stanford, Calif.), Pat Pataranutaporn (Stanford, Calif.), Yimeng Liu (Stanford, Calif.), Anesu M. Mapuranga (Stanford, Calif.), Patricia Emilia Maes (Stanford, Calif.), Tsachy Weissman (Stanford, Calif.) and Misha Sra (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. P...