ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,551, issued on June 17, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and system for video streaming with cellular data rate prediction" was invented by Chuan Li (Troy, Mich.), Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Sheng Liu (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video streaming includes receiving a video service request from a vehicle. The video service request is indicative of a request for a video content. The method further includes receiving a bandwidth prediction of a cellular network from the vehicle, and a list of available video codec configurations for a video content associated with the ...