US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "Reinforcement learning based rate control" (Chinese, American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,032, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reinforcement learning based rate control" was invented by Jiahao Li (Beijing), Bin Li (Beijing), Yan Lu (Beijing), Tom W. Holcomb (Sammamish, Wash.), Mei-Hsuan Lu (Taipei, Taiwan), Andrey Mezentsev (Redmond, Wash.) and Ming-Chieh Lee (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide a solution for rate control based on reinforcement learning. In this solution, an encoding state of a video encoder is determined, the encoding state being associated with encoding of a first video u...