ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,847, issued on May 13, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hierarchical video encoders" was invented by Vihan Jain (San Francisco), Joonseok Lee (Fremont, Calif.), Ming Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sheide Chammas (San Francisco), Hexiang Hu (Los Angeles), Bowen Zhang (Los Angeles), Fei Sha (Los Angeles) and Tze Way Eugene Ie (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating video representations utilizing a hierarchical video encoder includes obtaining a video, wherein the video includes a plurality of frames, processing each of the plurality of frames with a machine-learned ...