ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,685, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Highly efficient model for video quality assessment" was invented by Yilin Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Miao Yin (Somerset, N.J.), Qifei Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Boqing Gong (Bellevue, Wash.), Neil Aylon Charles Birkbeck (Cruz, Calif.) and Balineedu Chowdary Adsumilli (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating, for a video stream of a first spatial resolution and a first temporal resolution, a first reduced quality steam of a second spatial resolution and a second reduced-quality stream of a second temporal resolution. A first su...