ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,372, issued on April 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Systems and methods for encoding an interactive software video stream" was invented by Scott David Mosier (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding video streams includes, at an encoding device, receiving a first video stream frame from a first server device at the encoding device at a first receipt time; receiving a second video stream frame from a second server device at the encoding device at a second receipt time; encoding the first video stream frame with the encoding device; determining a delay duration based...