US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 2 for "Codec management at an information handling system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,515, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Codec management at an information handling system" was invented by Danilo Ong Tan (Austin, Texas) and Douglas Wayne Gillespie (Anna, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enabling codecs at an IHS including: accessing a local token store that stores tokens, each token associated with a codec; identifying codecs enabled at the IHS based on the tokens; receiving a request to encode or decode a media file, the media file associated with a particular codec for encoding or decoding of the media file; determining that the particular codec is not enabled at the I...