ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,832, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for encoding and decoding data" was invented by Maneli Noorkami (Menlo Park, Calif.), Ranjit Desai (Cupertino, Calif.), Joel N. Kerr (San Jose, Calif.) and Perry A. Caro (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to encoding recorded content for distribution to other computing devices. In some embodiments, a first computing device creates recorded content for transmission to a second computing device configured to present the recorded content. To encode the recorded content, the first computing device det...