US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Adaptive video streaming algorithm for optimized model predictive control" (California, Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,771, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Adaptive video streaming algorithm for optimized model predictive control" was invented by Zahaib Akhtar (San Jose, Calif.), Satheesh Ramalingam (Sammamish, Wash.), Mohan Padmanabhan (Sammamish, Wash.), Yongjun Wu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Tianyu Chen (Amherst, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adaptive bitrate techniques are used to select bitrates of segments to download when streaming video content. Different bitrate paths may be evaluated to optimize an objection function. Filtering bitrate paths that are unlikely to be optimal increases the computational...