ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,998, issued on June 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for non-destructive stabilization-based encoder optimization" was invented by Damien Kelly (San Francisco) and Bartlomiej Wronski (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video item that is subject to one or more motion stabilization transformations applied to the video item is identified. The one or more motion stabilization transformations pertain to a motion between video frames of a video sequence associated with the video item. One or more operations to modify the one or more motion stabilization transformations applied...