ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,303, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Bitmovin GmbH (Klagenfurt am Worthersee, Austria).

"Video encoding complexity predictor" was invented by Vignesh V. Menon (Klagenfurt am Worthersee, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (Klagenfurt am Worthersee, Austria) and Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt am Worthersee, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for predicting video encoding complexity are described herein. A method for predicting video encoding complexity includes performing video complexity feature extraction on a video segment to extract low-complexity frame-based features, predicting video encoding complexity for the video segme...