US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Video encoding using deviation-adjusted bitrate parameter" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,829, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Video encoding using deviation-adjusted bitrate parameter" was invented by Nitin Suri (Redmond, Wash.) and Carlos Alberto Lopez Servin (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are described for encoding digital video files, such as for streaming applications. Data associated with the digital video file forms a dataset that can be characterized by a measure of the dataset's center, such as an average, and a spread of the dataset, such as a deviation, with respective to a bitrate over a duration of the digital vid...