US Patent Issued to TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus and methods for lightweight transcoding" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,916, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC (St. Louis).

"Apparatus and methods for lightweight transcoding" was invented by Stephen Maynard (Thornton, Colo.), Trever Hallock (Westminster, Colo.), Nicholas Nielsen (Erie, Colo.) and Ernest Biancarelli (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for lightweight transcoding. In one embodiment, a minimal function transcoder is disclosed which supports multiple devices requiring various video formats. Transcoding functionality may be downloaded to an existing device and comprises using an intermediate set of data resulting from a partial decode...