ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,720, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Content adaptive boundary placement for distributed encodes" was invented by Yuanyi Xue (Kensington, Calif.), Erika Elizabeth Varis Doggett (Los Angeles), Christopher R. Schroers (Zurich), James D. Zimmerman (Rapid City, S.D.), Jared P. Mcphillen (Glendale, Calif.) and Scott C. Labrozzi (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Chunk based video encoding involves dividing a video into chunks with varying lengths based on the content within those frames. In contrast, dividing the video at a fix interval is prone to generating chunks starting at the mi...