ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,785, issued on May 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Selective data encoding and machine learning video synthesis for content streaming systems and applications" was invented by Pratyush Mahapatra (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ruthie Lyle (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of selectively compressing video data are disclosed. The proposed systems provide a computer-implemented process configured to classify a person's behavior(s) during a video and encode the behaviors as a representation of the video. The encoding will be tailor-generated based on the specific display configuration of ...