ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,139, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Video inter/intra compression using mixture of experts" was invented by David Charles Minnen (Mountain View, Calif.), Sung Jin Hwang (Mountain View, Calif.), Elliott Michael Karpilovsky (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Debargha Mukherjee (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs, for compression and decompression of video data using an ensemble of machine learning models. Methods can include defining for each frame in a video, a plurality of blocks in the frame. Methods can further include processin...