ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,031, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dolby Video Compression LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Advanced video data stream extraction and multi-resolution video transmission" was invented by Robert Skupin (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Karsten Suehring (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A concept for a video data stream extraction is presented which is more efficient namely which is, for example, able to more efficiently deal with video content of a type unknown to the recipient with videos of different type differing,...