ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,616, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GENETEC INC. (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

"Methods and systems for codec detection in video streams" was invented by Pierre Racz (Saint-Laurent, Canada) and Julien Vary (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for carrying out the method receiving packets, each of the packets comprising a header and a payload. For a particular packet among the packets, the method includes processing at least the header of the particular packet to determine a flow associated with the particular packet; attempting to determine a payload structure based on the flow, the payload struct...