ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,633, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for video decoder management" was invented by Yu-Chen Sun (Bellevue, Wash.), Shyam Sadhwani (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yun Zhang (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media to determine an available number of hardware decoders that can be used to process a video feed. The system can receive a select group of participants from a plurality of participants associated with the video call. The system can include identify a video feed for each participant of the select group of participants. The system ca...