ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,818, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Efficient video encoder architecture" was invented by Narendranath Malayath (San Diego), Kai Wang (San Diego) and Xue Fang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for efficient video coding. An method can include determining, during a first coding stage implemented at a first frame rate, first motion vectors for a first subset of frames in a sequence of frames; determining, during a second coding stage, second motion vectors for a second subset of frames in the sequence of frames, wherein a portion of the s...