ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,654, issued on July 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Patch based video coding for machines" was invented by Jill Boyce (Portland, Ore.), Palanivel Guruva Reddiar (Chandler, Ariz.) and Praveen Prasad (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques related to implementing patch based video coding for machines are discussed. Such patch based video coding includes detecting regions of interest in a frame of video, extracting the detected regions of interest to one or more atlases absent the frame at a resolution not less than the resolution of the regions of interest, and encoding the one or ...