ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,439, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Rate adaptation for video coding for machines" was invented by Liangping Ma (San Diego), Nikolai Konrad Leung (San Francisco), Imed Bouazizi (Frisco, Texas), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Charles Nung Lo (San Diego) and Thomas Stockhammer (Bergen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example a first network entity for processing feature set data formed from media data includes a processing system comprising one or more processors implemented in circuitry, the processing system being configured to: determine a first set of processing tasks of a series of pro...