ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,767, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adaptive foveated encoder and global motion predictor" was invented by Yunbiao Lin (Shanghai), Changliang Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Ce Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Yongfa Zhou (Beijing), Bo Zhao (Shanghai), Ping Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jianwei Yang (Beijing), Zhan Lou (Shanghai), Yu Yang (Beijing), Yating Wang (Beijing), Wenyi Tang (Beijing) and Bo Qiu (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an adaptive video encoder may determine headset-related information including at least one of focus-related information and motion-related information an...