ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,740, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for compressing video" was invented by Alexander Giladi (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for compressing digital content. The digital content may comprise a plurality of frames. The plurality of frames may comprise a plurality of crossfade frames. A first boundary frame of the crossfade frames may be determined. A second boundary frame of the crossfade frames may be determined. At least a portion of the crossfade frames may be coded as inter-predicted frames using a weigh...