ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,430, issued on Jan. 13.

"Optimizing video coding using a deep learning model" was invented by Xiaoming Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Santosh Sethumadhavan (San Ramon, Calif.) and Ehtesham Khan (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for optimizing encoding video frames from a video is provided. In an embodiment, the method comprises receiving a video frame to be encoded. The method further comprises using one or more machine learning models to generate an encoding parameter value for encoding the video frame. The method further comprises comparing a first set of delta encoding values, based on the en...