ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,902, issued on June 24, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).
"Hardware accelerated video encoding" was invented by Ohad Markus (Haifa, Israel), Assaf Weissman (Moreshet, Israel), Dotan David Levi (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel) and Eyal Frishman (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system includes a hardware accelerator to receive video data of multiple video frames, divide each of the video frames into respective blocks, compute encoding assist data including at least one video encoding parameter type for each of the respective blocks of each of the video frames, and store respec...