ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,909, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Analytics-aware video compression for decision making in teleoperated vehicle control" was invented by Biplob Debnath (Princeton, N.J.), Christoph Reich (Hessen, Germany), Deep Patel (Franklin Park, N.J.) and Srimat Chakradhar (Manalapan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for optimizing video compression for remote vehicle control, including capturing, capturing video and sensor data from a vehicle using a plurality of sensors and high-resolution cameras, analyzing the captured video to identify critical regions within frames of the video usi...