ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,460, issued on June 10, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Selective multiple-instance encoding of video frames to provide target frame rate during network transmission" was invented by Douglas Sim Dietrich Jr. (Los Gatos, Calif.), Robert McCool (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jean-Francois Roy (San Francisco), Michael S. Green (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Gurudas Somadder (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a video source device connected to a video destination device via a network. The video source device includes a network interface and an encoder coupled to the network interface. The encoder is...