ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,428, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DISH Technologies LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for enhanced video encoding" was invented by Christopher Day (Denver) and Rima Shah (Thornton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enhanced video encoding identify patterns in sequences of raw digital video frames to extract features and identify the type of content represented by the extracted features. The system simulates many outcomes of encoding the sequence of digital video frames by using various different encoding strategies to find the relative best encoding strategy for each sequence of frames. As ...