ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,403, issued on May 20, was assigned to Solsona MultiMedia Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for transcoding between frame-based video and frame free video" was invented by Chong Lee (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention encompasses methods and systems of transcoding frame-based video to frame free video is provided. The method comprises receiving a frame-based video stream, upconverting the received frame-based video stream to produce an upconverted frame-based video stream at a higher frame rate than the received frame-based video stream, and modulating the upconverted frame-based video stream u...