ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,262, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.) and Beijing YoJaJa Software Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Subjective quality assessment tool for image/video artifacts" was invented by Yuanyi Xue (Alameda, Calif.), Scott Labrozzi (Cary, N.C.), Wenhao Zhang (Beijing), Christopher Richard Schroers (Uster, Switzerland), Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo (Zurich), Xuchang Huangfu (Beijing), Lemei Huang (Beijing) and Yang Zhang (Dubendorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method sends information for a sample of content, a first question, and a second ques...