ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,011, issued on June 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Dynamic codec selection" was invented by Jian Wang (Burnaby, Canada) and Giridhar Kalpathy Narayanan (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A codec system dynamically selects a codec from multiple available codecs with a highest level of encoding quality at a computing device based at least in part on the available computing resources at a particular computing device. The codec system can continuously monitor encoding performance and if encoding with the selected codec uses too many computing resources, then the codec system can switch to a codec t...