US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Nov. 4 for "Techniques for avoiding re-encoding of media content items" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,147, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for avoiding re-encoding of media content items" was invented by Adithya Prakash (Campbell, Calif.), Aditya Mavlankar (San Francisco), Liwei Guo (San Francisco), Anush Moorthy (Redwood City, Calif.), Kyle Christopher Swanson (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Li-Heng Chen (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a video editing application receives, from an encoding application, a list of random access points of an encoded media content item. When an operator specifies a point of interest for the media content item, the video edit...