ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,084, issued on March 18, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Quality-metric-agnostic rate control" was invented by Eshed Ram (Nofit, Israel), Dotan David Levi (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Assaf Hallak (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shie Mannor (Haifa, Israel), Gal Chechik (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Eyal Frishman (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Ohad Markus (Haifa, Israel), Dror Porat (Haifa, Israel) and Assaf Weissman (Yokneam, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processing device to receive a video content, a quality metric, and a target bit rate for encoding the video content. The system includes encoding ...