ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,467, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Adeia Media Holdings LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Fast encoding of live streaming media content" was invented by Torbjorn Einarsson (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the management of virtual encoding format converters for live media content streams. A media content system may employ potentially many converters to encode potentially many live video streams. When supporting many live video streams, there may be some streams that are not being viewed by anyone at a particular time. In some such situations, a virtual encoding format conve...