US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Nov. 4 for "Simulation-based techniques for evaluating encoding ladders for video streaming" (California, Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,175, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Simulation-based techniques for evaluating encoding ladders for video streaming" was invented by Xiaoqing Zhu (Austin, Texas), Sagar Bharadwaj Kalasibail Seetharam (Pittsburgh), Te-Yuan Huang (Campbell, Calif.), Kaylie Alexa Kwon (San Francisco), Kyle Christopher Swanson (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Renata Cruz Teixeira (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a simulation evaluation application generates a first streaming header based on rungs of a first candidate encoding ladder, where each rung specifies a resolution and a bitrate ...