ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,389, issued on April 22, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Video codec aware radio access network configuration and unequal error protection coding" was invented by Razvan-Andrei Stoica (Essen, Germany), Hossein Bagheri (Urbana, Ill.) and Vijay Nangia (Woodridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to video codec aware RAN configuration and unequal error protection coding. An apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory that is configured to cause the apparatus to detect a video coded traffic stream and a video codec profile for encoding the...