ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,522, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method for constructing a perceptual metric for judging video quality" was invented by Troy Chinen (Fremont, Calif.), Alex Sukhanov (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Eirikur Thor Agustsson (Zurich) and George Dan Toderici (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example computer-implemented method for determining a perceptual quality of a subject video content item is provided. The example method can include inputting a subject frame set from the subject video content item into a first machine-learned model. The example method can also include generatin...