US Patent Issued to Mux on April 22 for "Method for generating video- and audience-specific encoding ladders" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,365, issued on April 22, was assigned to Mux Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method for generating video- and audience-specific encoding ladders" was invented by Nick Chadwick (San Francisco), Adam Brown (San Francisco), Jon Dahl (San Francisco), Masroor Hasan (San Francisco) and Ben Dodson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: extracting a set of video features representing properties of a video segment; generating a set of bitrate-resolution pairs based on the set of video features, each bitrate-resolution pair in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs defining a bitrate and defining a resolution estimated to maximiz...