ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,038, issued on July 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Re-encoding predicted picture frames in live video stream applications" was invented by Olivier Lapicque (San Jose, Calif.) and Srinivas Anne (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a media stream may be received by a re-encode system that may leverage a recode engine to convert (e.g., at an interval, based on a request, etc.) an inter-frame associated with the media stream to an intra-frame. The intra-frame may be converted from the inter-frame using parameters or other information associated with and received with the media strea...