ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,826, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automatic selection of compression artifact removal models" was invented by Shashwat Verma (San Jose, Calif.), Wen Ma (San Jose, Calif.), John Charles Wright (Oakland, Calif.), Tariq Afzal (San Jose, Calif.), Sankalp Dayal (San Mateo, Calif.), Prajit Kulkarni (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Om Prakash Gangwal (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are generally described for selecting a machine learning model for compression artifact removal and resolution upscaling of video streaming data. In various examples, a system or method re...